Mere reading : the poetics of wonder in modern American novels /

Mere reading : the poetics of wonder in modern American novels /

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 movemen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mitchell, Lee Clark, 1947- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, [2017]
Subjects:
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Wonder in literature.
Books and reading.
Criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.