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050 00 $aPS169.S57$bR45 1996
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100 1 $aReising, Russell.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001078620
245 10 $aLoose ends :$bclosure and crisis in the American social text /$cRussell Reising.
260 $aDurham, N.C. :$bDuke University Press,$c1996.
300 $axii, 374 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aNew Americanists
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [355]-368) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Loose Ends: Aesthetic Closure and Social Crisis --$g1.$t"Seek and Ye Shall Find"; or, Il n'y a pas de dedans du texte: Wieland, Reference, History, Anti-Closure --$g2.$tThe Whiteness of the Wheatleys: Phillis Wheatley's Revolutionary Poetics --$g3.$tFading Out of Print: Herman Melville's Israel Potter and the Economy of Literary History --$g4.$tEmily Dickinson's Lost Dog --$g5.$t"The Jolly Corner": Henry James at the Crossroads --$g6.$t"The Easiest Room in Hell": The Political Work of Disney's Dumbo.
520 $aIn this study of American cultural production from the colonial era to the present, Russell Reising takes up the loose ends of popular American narratives to craft a new theory of narrative closure. In the range of works examined here Reising finds endings that violate all existing theories of closure, and narratives that expose the often unarticulated issues that inspired these texts.
520 8 $aPursuing the implications of these failed moments of closure, Reising elaborates on topics ranging from the roots of domestic violence and mass murder in early American religious texts to the pornographic imperative of mid-century nature writing, and from James's "descent" into naturalist and feminist fiction to Dumbo's explosive projection of commercial, racial, and political agendas for postwar U.S. culture.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004351
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106996
600 10 $aWheatley, Phillis,$d1753-1784$xPolitical and social views.
600 10 $aDickinson, Emily,$d1830-1886$xPolitical and social views.
600 10 $aJames, Henry,$d1843-1916$xPolitical and social views.
600 10 $aBrown, Charles Brockden,$d1771-1810.$tWieland.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00074110
600 10 $aMelville, Herman,$d1819-1891.$tIsrael Potter.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011090446
650 0 $aSocial problems in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123990
650 0 $aClosure (Rhetoric)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85027147
830 0 $aNew Americanists.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93038344
852 00 $bglx$hPS169.S57$iR45 1996