Horizons, Happiness, and the Impossible Pursuits of US Literature and Culture
by
Dr. Andrew Warnes
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire. Such lists, however, mislead. Just as most US dictionaries have in...