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The covert sphere : secrecy, fiction, and the national security state
- Title
- The covert sphere : secrecy, fiction, and the national security state / Timothy Melley.
- Author
- Melley, Timothy, 1963-
- Publication
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
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Details
- Description
- x, 289 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Popular culture > Political aspects > United States > History > 21st century
- Secrecy in literature
- Terrorism in literature
- Espionage in literature
- Spy stories, American > History and criticism
- World politics in literature
- Literature and history > United States
- Popular culture > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- National security > Social aspects > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-277) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The postmodern public sphere -- 1. Brainwashed! -- 2. Spectacles of secrecy -- 3. False documents -- 4. The work of art in the age of plausible deniability -- 5. Postmodern amnesia -- 6. The geopolitical melodrama.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-2219
- ISBN
- 9780801451232 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 080145123X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780801478536 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0801478537 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012026271
- OCLC
- 794706433
- Author
- Melley, Timothy, 1963-
- Title
- The covert sphere : secrecy, fiction, and the national security state / Timothy Melley.
- Imprint
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-277) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-2219