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题名/责任者:

Mere reading : the poetics of wonder in modern American novels / Lee Clark Mitchell.

出版发行项:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2017.

ISBN:

9781501329654

ISBN:

1501329650

ISBN:

9781501329647

ISBN:

1501329642

载体形态项:

x, 262 pages ; 22 cm

个人责任者:

Mitchell, Lee Clark, 1947- author.

论题主题:

American fiction-20th century-History and criticism.

论题主题:

American fiction-21st century-History and criticism.

论题主题:

Wonder in literature.

论题主题:

Books and reading.

论题主题:

Criticism.

中图法分类号:

I712.074

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254) and index.

摘要附注:

"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 Di虂az'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."--

摘要附注:

"Argues through close readings of twentieth-century American novels for a return to the foundations of literary study"--

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