American Tantalus examines how themes of thwarted desire and perpetual deferral define much of US literature and culture.
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American Tantalus examines how themes of thwarted desire and perpetual deferral define much of US literature and culture.
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"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 fact long recognised tantalise's origins in The Odyssey, so they have defined it as the unique desire we feel for objects that (like the fruit and water once cruelly placed before Tantalus) lie within ...
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Brief analytical references to desire, yearning, and virginal objects in literary works discussed.
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Central analysis of social, cultural, and ideological themes in American literature, including modernity and commodity culture.
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