The Ulysses delusion : rethinking standards of literary merit /
Popular fiction follows literature professors wherever they go. At coffee shops or out for drinks, after faculty meetings or classes, even at family reunions - they are persistently pressed to talk about bestselling novels. Questions immediately follow. What do I mean when I say a book is "good...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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| Series: | American literature readings in the 21st century.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: Ransoming a Reading Nation
- Come and Get it
- Bring Money
- Reading Lolita at St. Kate's
- Oprah's Book Club and the Summer of Faulkner
- Lost in a Chick Lit Austenland
- What I learned from The (Book) Group
- Storytelling with Jodi Picoult
- Rereading Rand
- Writing Wizardry
- Redefining Excellence.