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Play and the politics of reading : the social uses of modernist form /

"Reading is socially useful, in Paul B. Armstrong's view, and can model democratic interaction by a community unconstrained by the need to build consensus but aware of the dangers of violence, irrationality, and anarchy. Reading requires mutual recognition but need not culminate in agreeme...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Armstrong, Paul B., 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1: Theory
  • The politics of reading: nonconsensual reciprocity and the negotiation of differences
  • Play, power, and difference: the social implications of Iser's aesthetic theory
  • Being "out of place": Edward Said and the contradictions of cultural differences
  • 2: Criticism
  • Art and the construction of community in "the death of the lion"
  • Historicizing Conrad: temporal form and the politics of reading
  • Misogyny and the ethics of reading: the problem of Conrad's chance
  • Liberalism and the politics of form: the ambiguous narrative voice in Howards end
  • Reading India: the double turns of Forster's pragmatism
  • James Joyce and the politics of reading: power, belief, and justice in Ulysses
  • Pedagogical postscript: liberal education, the English major, and pluralistic literacy.