High resolution : critical theory and the problem of literacy /

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This book combines literary theory and close textual readings of works by Hawthorne, Melville, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound and Italo Calvino to explore the socio-political correlatives to literary studies.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sussman, Henry
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Criticism > United States.
Literacy > United States.
Critical theory.
Littérature américaine > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Critique > États-Unis.
Théorie critique.
critical theories (dialectical critiques)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Criticism.
Literacy.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Toward differential literacy: the pursuit of rigor in the age of kitsch
  • The marble faun and the space of American letters
  • The deconstructor and the politician: Melville's The confidence-man
  • The university of verse: the economics of modern American poetry
  • The expanding castle: the literature of literacy.

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