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 m...
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TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
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
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
INTRODUCTION: SLOWING DOWN 1
I. Slow Reading and Wonder 3
IL Symptomatic Reading 8
III. Missteps of Close Reading 13
IV. An Ethics of Reading 17
V. Problems of Paraphrase 25
VI. Getting It Wrong 28
VII. Clash of Values 33
VIII. Late Modernism 37
IX. A Disruptive Reading 41
X. Medley of Styles 46
XI. “Mere5 Reading 52
Chapter 1
POSSESSION IN THE PROFESSOR S HOUSE (1925) 61
I. Unnerving Descriptions, Wondrous Visions 66
II. Defying Sequence 73
III. Selfless Wonder, Yet Possession Persists 79
IV. Lives Suspended 83
Chapter 2
OSCILLATION IN LOLITA (1955) 89
I. Style and Desire 92
II. Evasions and Oscillations 100
III. Dualities, Indeterminacy, Literature 112
Chapter 3
HOSPITALITY IN HOUSEKEEPING (1980) 121
I. Keeping House, Amid Loss 125
II. “If I Had B een There” 131
III. Transiency 138
IV. A Closure that Resists 141
Chapter 4
VIOLENCE IN BLOOD MERIDIAN(1985) 149
I. Defying Expression 151
II. “Language Usurps Things” 156
III. The Failed Promise of “Optical Democracy” 160
IV. Violations of Simile 163
V. Savagery and Transfiguration 168
Chapter 5
TALK IN THE ROAD (2006) 173
I. Dead Landscapes, Strange Words 176
II. Legacies 185
III. Sustaining the Mysteries 193
Chapter 6
BELATEDNESS IN THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR
WAO (2007) 205
I. “Whafs past is prologue.” (The Tempest,II: 1:253) 210
II. Ventriloquisms 216
III. Postmodern Inflections 221
IV. Blank Pages 225
V. Centrifugal Narrative 228
EPILOGUE: RESISTING RULES 235
Bibliography 241
Index 255
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| title_exact_search | Mere reading the poetics of wonder in modern American novels |
| title_full | Mere reading the poetics of wonder in modern American novels Lee Clark Mitchell |
| title_fullStr | Mere reading the poetics of wonder in modern American novels Lee Clark Mitchell |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mere reading the poetics of wonder in modern American novels Lee Clark Mitchell |
| title_short | Mere reading |
| title_sort | mere reading the poetics of wonder in modern american novels |
| title_sub | the poetics of wonder in modern American novels |
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| topic_facet | LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General American fiction 20th century History and criticism American fiction 21st century History and criticism Wonder in literature Books and reading Criticism Roman Leser USA |
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