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2016041961 |
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9781501329654 (hardcover) |
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9781501329647 (softcover) |
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9781501329678 (ePub) |
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9781501329661 (ePDF) |
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DLC |
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eng |
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rda |
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DLC |
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DLC |
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MvI |
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PS379 |
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.M496 2017 |
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813/.509 |
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23 |
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LIT007000 |
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LIT004020 |
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| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Mitchell, Lee Clark, |
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1947- |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Mere reading : |
| Remainder of title |
the poetics of wonder in modern American novels / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Lee Clark Mitchell. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Bloomsbury Academic, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2017. |
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x, 262 pages ; |
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23 cm |
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unmediated |
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"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 movement in challenging readers to embrace a rationale for literary criticism that has too long been ignored-a neglect that corresponds, perhaps not coincidentally, to a flight from literature courses themselves. In close readings of six American novels spread over the past century-Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and The Road, and Junot DiÌaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao-Mitchell traces a shifting strain of late modernist innovation that celebrates a species of magic and wonder, of aesthetic "bliss" (as Barthes and Nabokov both coincidentally described the experience) that dumbfounds the reader and compels a reassessment of interpretive assumptions. The novels included here aspire to being read slowly, so that sounds, rhythms, repetitions, rhymes, and other verbal features take on a heightened poetic status-in critic Barbara Johnson's words, "the rigorous perversity and seductiveness of literary language"--thwarting pressures of plot that otherwise push us ineluctably forward. In each chapter, the return to "mere reading" becomes paradoxically a gesture that honors the intractability of fictional texts, their sheer irresolution, indeed the way in which their "literary" status rests on the play of irreconcilables that emerges from the verbal tensions we find ourselves first astonished by, then delighting in."-- |
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Provided by publisher. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254) and index. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Slowing Down -- 1. Possession in The Professor's House (1925) -- 2. Oscillation in Lolita (1955) -- 3. Hospitality in Housekeeping (1980) -- 4. Violence in Blood Meridian (1985) -- 5. Language in The Road (2006) -- 6. Belatedness in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) -- Epilogue: Resisting Rules -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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American fiction |
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20th century |
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History and criticism. |
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American fiction |
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21st century |
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History and criticism. |
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Wonder in literature. |
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Books and reading. |
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Criticism. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. |
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bisacsh |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. |
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bisacsh |
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| Relationship information |
Online version: |
| Main entry heading |
Mitchell, Lee Clark, 1947- author. |
| Title |
Mere reading |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication |
New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 |
| International Standard Book Number |
9781501329661 |
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(DLC) 2017001942 |
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