Spectacular Allegories: Postmodern American Writing and the Politics of Seeing

by Josh Cohen

In a wide-ranging study, Josh Cohen argues that the American fixation with image - literally celebrating the surface, the visual, the spectacular spaces of the cinema and the city - has produced a crisis of literary perception, with crucial cultural and political consequences.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745312071
• ISBN13: 9780745312071
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 184 Pages