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- catalog contributor b566813.
- catalog created "c1984.".
- catalog date "1984".
- catalog date "c1984.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1984.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [103]-126.".
- catalog description "Preface -- Tall tales, trademarks, and the Great Gatsby : midwestern space defined -- The hoax, the ad, and the frontier: mythological giants arise to fill the vastness of the American West -- Anxiety, nostalgia, and World's Fairs : colossi mark the borders of a modern America -- Frontiers, highways, and miniature golf : the tourist becomes a roadside colossus -- The great American roadside : tourist sculpture in Minnesota -- Postcards, souvenirs, and come-ons : wayside giants sell the American dream -- Scale, patriotism, and fun : crossing the last frontier of fantasy -- Nick Carraway, Paul Bunyan, and Babe, the Blue Ox : why Gatsby is "great" -- Notes -- Minnesota colossi -- Map -- Index -- Other colossi -- Index -- Photo album.".
- catalog extent "xii, 140 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0816613028 :".
- catalog identifier "0816613036 (pbk.) :".
- catalog issued "1984".
- catalog issued "c1984.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,".
- catalog spatial "Minnesota.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "745/.0973 19".
- catalog subject "Folk art Minnesota.".
- catalog subject "Folk art United States Psychological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Folklore United States Themes, motives.".
- catalog subject "NK805 .M27 1984".
- catalog subject "Popular culture United States Psychological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Symbolism in art United States.".
- catalog subject "Symbolism in folklore United States Classification.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface -- Tall tales, trademarks, and the Great Gatsby : midwestern space defined -- The hoax, the ad, and the frontier: mythological giants arise to fill the vastness of the American West -- Anxiety, nostalgia, and World's Fairs : colossi mark the borders of a modern America -- Frontiers, highways, and miniature golf : the tourist becomes a roadside colossus -- The great American roadside : tourist sculpture in Minnesota -- Postcards, souvenirs, and come-ons : wayside giants sell the American dream -- Scale, patriotism, and fun : crossing the last frontier of fantasy -- Nick Carraway, Paul Bunyan, and Babe, the Blue Ox : why Gatsby is "great" -- Notes -- Minnesota colossi -- Map -- Index -- Other colossi -- Index -- Photo album.".
- catalog title "The colossus of roads : myth and symbol along the American highway / Karal Ann Marling ; with an album of Minnesota photographs by Liz Harrison and additional photography by Bruce White.".
- catalog type "Classification. fast".
- catalog type "text".