Mere reading : the poetics of wonder in modern American novels /

"Mere Reading argues for a return to the foundations of literary study established nearly a century ago. Following a recent period dominated by symptomatic analyses of fictional texts (new historicist, Marxist, feminist, identity-political), Lee Clark Mitchell joins a burgeoning neo-formalist m...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mitchell, Lee Clark, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Temas:
1900-2099
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Wonder in literature.
Books and reading.
Criticism.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman américain > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Livres et lecture.
Critique.
literary criticism.
criticism.
Literary theory.
Literary studies: from c 1900 -.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction
Books and reading
Criticism
Wonder in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Epigraph; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION: SLOWING DOWN; I. Slow Reading and Wonder; II. Symptomatic Reading; III. Missteps of Close Reading; IV. An Ethics of Reading; V. Problems of Paraphrase; VI. Getting It Wrong; VII. Clash of Values; VIII. Late Modernism; IX. A Disruptive Reading; X. Medley of Styles; XI. "Mere" Reading; Notes; Chapter 1 POSSESSION IN THE PROFESSOR'S HOUSE (1925); I. Unnerving Descriptions, Wondrous Visions; II. Defying Sequence; III. Selfl ess Wonder, Yet Possession Persists.
  • IV. Lives SuspendedNotes; Chapter 2 OSCILLATION IN LOLITA (1955); I. Style and Desire; II. Evasions and Oscillations; III. Dualities, Indeterminacy, Literature; Notes; Chapter 3 HOSPITALITY IN HOUSEKEEPING (1980); I. Keeping House, Amid Loss; II. "If I Had Been Th ere"; III. Transiency; IV. A Closure that Resists; Notes; Chapter 4 VIOLENCE IN BLOOD MERIDIAN (1985); I. Defying Expression; II. "Language Usurps Th ings"; III. The Failed Promise of "Optical Democracy"; IV. Violations of Simile; V. Savagery and Transfi guration; Notes; Chapter 5 TALK IN THE ROAD (2006).
  • I. Dead Landscapes, Strange WordsII. Legacies; III. Sustaining the Mysteries; Notes; Chapter 6 BELATEDNESS IN THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO (2007); I. "What's past is prologue." (Th e Tempest, II: 1: 253); II. Ventriloquisms; III. Postmodern Inflections; IV. Blank Pages; V. Centrifugal Narrative; Notes; EPILOGUE: RESISTING RULES; Note; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

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