Bonfires of the American Dream in American Rhetoric, Literature and Film

美国修辞、文学和电影中的美国梦之火

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2022年06月14日
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9781839983825
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136
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216x140x26mm
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英文
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How could American social solidarity have so collapsed that we cannot even cooperate in fighting a pandemic? One problem lies in how our values mutate and intersect in an era of runaway high-end inequality and evaporating upward mobility. Under such conditions, tensions rise between our egalitarian and democratic traditions on the one hand, and what we often call the "American Dream" of self-advancement and due reward on the other.In our current Second Gilded Age, as in the first one from the late nineteenth century, the results of economic competition appear to suggest, falsely, that some of us are "winners" who deserve everything they have, while others are contemptible "losers." The rich ostensibly owe the poor nothing - not even compassion or respect, and certainly not material aid through government.In Bonfires of the American Dream, Daniel Shaviro develops these themes through close studies, in social context, of such classic novels and films as Atlas Shrugged, The Great Gatsby, It’s a Wonderful Life, and The Wolf of Wall Street. He thereby helps to provide a better understanding of what, apart from racism, has in recent years caused things to go so wrong culturally in America. (来源*.co.uk)
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