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Table of Contents
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7
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Preface
Introduction
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9
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Article
Against American exceptionalism : post-colonial perspectives on Irish immigration
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15
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Article
Contesting the sublime : new versions of an alternative American tradition
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29
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Article
Where is America? : Elsewhere realities and the American dream
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45
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Article
Making myths about the 'Merrikins : imagining American ingenuity in the Jacksonian era
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53
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Article
From Columbia to the United States of America : the creation and spreading of a name
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67
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Article
Native American myths reconsidered
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83
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Article
Foundational myths revisited : traditional and contemporary identity in the novels of Louise Erdrich
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103
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Article
The American myth in progress : Willa Cather's My Ántonia
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117
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Article
Women's "Englightened" re-visions of a new world
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127
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Article
Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti and the de-disneyfication of America
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139
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Article
"I spoke in haste" : overcoming original causality in The Grandissimes
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149
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Article
American fiction and white male myths
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163
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Article
The foundation of a myth : visualizing the American West
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175
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Article
The fate of the American western film
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187
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Article
Rewriting American foundational Myths in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest
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201
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Rubric
Notes on contributors
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215
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Index
Index of names
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219
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