Reading America: Text as a Cultural ForceAcademica Press,LLC, 2007 - 680 páginas Is there a unique visual infrastructure that keeps and defines a culture? Professor Guillen discusses a culture built entirely on the visual modality and, most significantly, on that province of the visual we negotiate through the written word. Although this work analyzes features critical to the American legal tradition from its origins in Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence to recent Supreme Court decisions---substantially exploring Judge Scalia's "originalist" movement and Posner's law and economics theories---the presiding agency remains the power of the written language to provide scaffolding to American culture. Writing, it is argued, contours: our worldview, our laws, morality, science, social problems, and affects film, media, broadcasting, comics and literary criticism. The effects of our national formation and the literature that sprung up to discuss the new nation and define its people have directly led to the evolution of our idiosyncratic legal and philosophical perspectives. The title of this work purposely carries a double meaning since it proposes to deal with a "reading of" American culture through its legal and cultural legacy as well as concluding with questions revolving around a well informed American "readership" essential for the preservation of the culture as well as the continued existence of a national collective conscience. |
Conteúdo
1 READING AMERICA | 1 |
2 NATION MYTHS | 7 |
MANUSCRIPT CULTURE AND THE ADVENT OF PRINT | 35 |
4 AMERICAN CIVILIZATION | 71 |
ORIGINALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS | 91 |
6 NEW YORK AND THE POLITICS OF WEALTH | 137 |
MELVILLES WALL STREET | 169 |
8 BARTLEBY AND 19TH CENTURY TORT LAW | 189 |
TEXT AIRWAVES AND CONTENT REGULATION | 347 |
MEDIATIZED NATIONAL INTEREST | 369 |
A NEW LEFT AND NOVELS OF IDEAS | 393 |
SKINNER DERRIDA BAUDRILLARD AND SUBVERSION | 431 |
THE ENTROPIC WORD | 455 |
LANGUAGE AND RESPONSIBILITY | 483 |
THE POLITICS OF CULTURAL ATAVISM | 509 |
BILINGUAL INEQUALITIES | 539 |
AN EPISTEMOLOGY OF SKEPTICISM | 213 |
ISABEL ARCHER AS UNREFLECTIVE THOUGHT | 235 |
11 AMERICAN LEGAL DISCOURSE | 271 |
12 LAW AND POPULAR CULTURE | 285 |
13 CINEMA MEDIA AND THE SPECTATOR | 309 |
14 COMIC BOOKS AND JUVENILE CRIME | 327 |
EDUCATION REVALORIZED | 561 |
24 LIFE DEATH AND ACCOUNTABILITY | 585 |
25 CONCLUSION | 623 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 641 |
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