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- 020 __ |a 9781501329654 |q (hbk.)
- 020 __ |a 1501329650 |q (hbk.)
- 035 __ |a (OCoLC)956959222
- 040 __ |a DLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC |d YDX |d BDX |d OCLCF |d YDX |d OCLCO |d OCLCQ |d IUL |d BNG
- 050 00 |a PS379 |b .M496 2017
- 100 1_ |a Mitchell, Lee Clark, |d 1947- |e author.
- 245 10 |a Mere reading : |b the poetics of wonder in modern American novels / |c Lee Clark Mitchell.
- 260 __ |a New York, NY : |b Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, |c 2017.
- 300 __ |a x, 262 pages ; |c 22 cm
- 336 __ |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent
- 337 __ |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia
- 338 __ |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254) and index.
- 520 __ |a "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."-- |c Provided by publisher.
- 520 __ |a "Argues through close readings of twentieth-century American novels for a return to the foundations of literary study"-- |c Provided by publisher.
- 650 _0 |a American fiction |y 20th century |x History and criticism.
- 650 _0 |a American fiction |y 21st century |x History and criticism.
- 650 _0 |a Wonder in literature.
- 650 _0 |a Books and reading.