... published in 1950, walking in a slightly different direction). In chapter 1, Marx establishes his basic thesis: the intrusion of the machine into the natural idyllic (bucolic) landscape is a constitutive motif in American "culture" (here, his conceptual definition is rather blurred, cf. p.4: "the region where literature, general ideas, and certain products of the collective imagination meet"). Literary expressions range from Washington Irving to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Melville (Moby Dick), and ... both, the "savages" and other threats of the uncivilized on the one hand, and the threats of...

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... published in 1950, walking in a slightly different direction). In chapter 1, Marx establishes his basic thesis: the intrusion of the machine into the natural idyllic (bucolic) landscape is a constitutive motif in American "culture" (here, his conceptual definition is rather blurred, cf. p.4: "the region where literature, general ideas, and certain products of the collective imagination meet"). Literary expressions range from Washington Irving to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Melville (Moby Dick), and ... both, the "savages" and other threats of the uncivilized on the one hand, and the threats of...

• Word Count: 790
• Approx Pages: 3