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The Oprah affect : critical essays on Oprah's book club /
"The Oprah Affect explores the cultural impact of Oprah's Book Club, particularly in light of debates about the definition and purpose of literature in American culture. For the critics collected here, Oprah's Book Club stands, in the context of American literary history, not as an eg...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany, NY :
State University of New York Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr
- Oprah in the public library / Juliette Wells and Virginia Wells
- Talking readers / Cecilia Konchar Farr
- Reading religiously : the ritual practices of Oprah's book club / Katherine Lofton
- The romance of reading like Oprah / Yung-Hsing Wu
- Oprah's book selections : teleliterature for the Oprah Winfrey Show / Mark Hall
- Resisting Paradise : Toni Morrison, Oprah Winfrey, and the middlebrow audience / Michael Perry
- Oprah's book club and the politics of cross-racial empathy / Kimberly Chabot Davis
- Beware the furrow of the middlebrow : searching for Paradise on the Oprah Winfrey show / Timothy Aubry
- "Did Isabel Allende write this book for me?" : Oprah's book club reads Daughter of fortune / Ana Patricia Rodríquez
- The trouble with happy endings : conflicting narratives in Oprah's book club / Kelley Penfield Lewis
- Your book changed my life : everyday literary criticism and Oprah's book club / Kate Douglas
- Correcting Oprah : Jonathan Franzen and the uses of literature in the therapeutic age / Kevin Quirk
- The way we read now : Oprah Winfrey, intellectuals, and democracy / Simon Stow
- Everything old is new again : Oprah's book club returns with the classics / Kathleen Rooney
- Afterward : Oprah, James Frey, and the problem of the literary / Jaime Harker.