Between Habits of the Heart and Copulation of Clichés: Some Popular American Stories, Mores and Shibboleths
From the very beginning, all manner of ideas, concepts and conceits have been advanced to explain America and Americans - as much to themselves as to others. The paper presents a historical- literary compilation of popular notions of ‘Americanness’ in the guise of random de Tocquevillian observation...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2012-06-01
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| Series: | Studia Anglica Posnaniensia |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/v10121-012-0006-8 |