The Written Suburb An American Site, An Ethnographic Dilemma John D. Dorst "A wonderful book that . . . is shrewd and often quite funny . . . and] employs the tools of an anthropologist to explain the strange folkways of late 20th-century Pennsylvania suburbanites."--Philadelphia Inquirer "A subversive and postmodern work about the town of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. The book considers Wyeth country--what kind of place it is and how it is constituted. . . . Dorst asks questions about how the place represents itself to itself and to tourists."--Lingua Franca "The Written...
The Written Suburb An American Site, An Ethnographic Dilemma John D. Dorst "A wonderful book that . . . is shrewd and often quite funny . . . and] em...
The American West is a region, perhaps more than any other in the United States, that comes to us in visual terms. The grand landscapes, open vistas, and magisterial views have made the act of looking a defining feature of how we experience the West as an actual place. In Looking West, John D. Dorst examines a largely neglected pattern of seeing that stands in contrast to the universally familiar iconography. When we engage in the act of looking, contends Dorst, we inevitably do so according to historically determined patterns--"discourses of seeing." It is a central premise of...
The American West is a region, perhaps more than any other in the United States, that comes to us in visual terms. The grand landscapes, open vistas, ...
