The Pilot and the Passenger: Essays on Literature, Technology, and Culture in the United States

by Leo Marx

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For over forty years, Leo Marx has studied American culture as a dialectical process, a fruitful contest between conflicting ways of seeing the world and expressing its meaning. The Pilot and the Passenger, a collection of essays spanning Marx's career, explores the meaning of this contest as it makes itself felt in America's literature, technology, and cultural politics.
Marx first examines such major writers as Melville, Thoreau, Mark Twain,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195048768

ISBN13:9780195048766

Release Date:August 1989

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:384 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Related Subjects

American Literature Classics Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Movements & Periods Science & Math Technology

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