Essays in the American Imaginary
by
Lene M. Johannessen
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Horizons of Enchantment is about the peculiar power and exceptional pull of the imaginary in American culture. Johannessen’s subject here is the almost mystical American belief in the promise and potential of the individual, or the reliance on a kind of “modern magic” that can loosely be characterized...