Desiring the bomb : communication, psychoanalysis, and the atomic age / Calum L. Matheson

Author: Matheson, Calum L., 1981-
Published: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2019]
Copyright Date: ©2019
Physical Description: 1 online resource

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Rhetoric, culture, and social critique

Contents

Enduring half-lives of the bomb -- Fort : Trinity and the real -- Da : war games -- Fort : desired ground zeroes -- Da : survival -- Dragons on the map.

Summary

"A timely interdisciplinary study that applies psychoanalysis and the rhetorical tradition of the sublime to examine the cultural aftermath of the Atomic Age"--

Subject(s)

Nuclear weapons—United States—Psychological aspects
Nuclear warfare—United States—Psychological aspects
English language—United States—Rhetoric
Rhetoric—Political aspects—United States
Guerre nucléaire—États-Unis—Aspect psychologique
Anglais (Langue)—États-Unis—Rhétorique
Discours politique—États-Unis
POLITICAL SCIENCE—Public Policy—Cultural Policy
SOCIAL SCIENCE—Anthropology—Cultural
SOCIAL SCIENCE—Popular Culture
English language—Rhetoric
Nuclear warfare—Psychological aspects
Nuclear weapons—Psychological aspects
Rhetoric—Political aspects
United States

ISBN

9780817392048 (electronic bk.)
0817392041 (electronic bk.)
9780817319984
0817319980

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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