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