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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| Zusammenfassung: | "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 Díaz'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."-- "Argues through close readings of twentieth-century American novels for a return to the foundations of literary study"-- |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Epigraph; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION: SLOWING DOWN; I. Slow Reading and Wonder; II. Symptomatic Reading; III. Missteps of Close Reading; IV. An Ethics of Reading; V. Problems of Paraphrase; VI. Getting It Wrong; VII. Clash of Values; VIII. Late Modernism; IX. A Disruptive Reading; X. Medley of Styles; XI. "Mere" Reading; Notes; Chapter 1 POSSESSION IN THE PROFESSOR'S HOUSE (1925); I. Unnerving Descriptions, Wondrous Visions; II. Defying Sequence; III. Selfl ess Wonder, Yet Possession Persists. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a IV. Lives SuspendedNotes; Chapter 2 OSCILLATION IN LOLITA (1955); I. Style and Desire; II. Evasions and Oscillations; III. Dualities, Indeterminacy, Literature; Notes; Chapter 3 HOSPITALITY IN HOUSEKEEPING (1980); I. Keeping House, Amid Loss; II. "If I Had Been Th ere"; III. Transiency; IV. A Closure that Resists; Notes; Chapter 4 VIOLENCE IN BLOOD MERIDIAN (1985); I. Defying Expression; II. "Language Usurps Th ings"; III. The Failed Promise of "Optical Democracy"; IV. Violations of Simile; V. Savagery and Transfi guration; Notes; Chapter 5 TALK IN THE ROAD (2006). | |
| 505 | 8 | |a I. Dead Landscapes, Strange WordsII. Legacies; III. Sustaining the Mysteries; Notes; Chapter 6 BELATEDNESS IN THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO (2007); I. "What's past is prologue." (Th e Tempest, II: 1: 253); II. Ventriloquisms; III. Postmodern Inflections; IV. Blank Pages; V. Centrifugal Narrative; Notes; EPILOGUE: RESISTING RULES; Note; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX. | |
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| contents | Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Epigraph; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION: SLOWING DOWN; I. Slow Reading and Wonder; II. Symptomatic Reading; III. Missteps of Close Reading; IV. An Ethics of Reading; V. Problems of Paraphrase; VI. Getting It Wrong; VII. Clash of Values; VIII. Late Modernism; IX. A Disruptive Reading; X. Medley of Styles; XI. "Mere" Reading; Notes; Chapter 1 POSSESSION IN THE PROFESSOR'S HOUSE (1925); I. Unnerving Descriptions, Wondrous Visions; II. Defying Sequence; III. Selfl ess Wonder, Yet Possession Persists. IV. Lives SuspendedNotes; Chapter 2 OSCILLATION IN LOLITA (1955); I. Style and Desire; II. Evasions and Oscillations; III. Dualities, Indeterminacy, Literature; Notes; Chapter 3 HOSPITALITY IN HOUSEKEEPING (1980); I. Keeping House, Amid Loss; II. "If I Had Been Th ere"; III. Transiency; IV. A Closure that Resists; Notes; Chapter 4 VIOLENCE IN BLOOD MERIDIAN (1985); I. Defying Expression; II. "Language Usurps Th ings"; III. The Failed Promise of "Optical Democracy"; IV. Violations of Simile; V. Savagery and Transfi guration; Notes; Chapter 5 TALK IN THE ROAD (2006). I. Dead Landscapes, Strange WordsII. Legacies; III. Sustaining the Mysteries; Notes; Chapter 6 BELATEDNESS IN THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO (2007); I. "What's past is prologue." (Th e Tempest, II: 1: 253); II. Ventriloquisms; III. Postmodern Inflections; IV. Blank Pages; V. Centrifugal Narrative; Notes; EPILOGUE: RESISTING RULES; Note; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX. |
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| spelling | Mitchell, Lee Clark, 1947- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81011833 Mere reading : the poetics of wonder in modern American novels / Lee Clark Mitchell. 1704 New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier "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 Díaz'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."-- Provided by publisher "Argues through close readings of twentieth-century American novels for a return to the foundations of literary study"-- Provided by publisher Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Epigraph; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION: SLOWING DOWN; I. Slow Reading and Wonder; II. Symptomatic Reading; III. Missteps of Close Reading; IV. An Ethics of Reading; V. Problems of Paraphrase; VI. Getting It Wrong; VII. Clash of Values; VIII. Late Modernism; IX. A Disruptive Reading; X. Medley of Styles; XI. "Mere" Reading; Notes; Chapter 1 POSSESSION IN THE PROFESSOR'S HOUSE (1925); I. Unnerving Descriptions, Wondrous Visions; II. Defying Sequence; III. Selfl ess Wonder, Yet Possession Persists. IV. Lives SuspendedNotes; Chapter 2 OSCILLATION IN LOLITA (1955); I. Style and Desire; II. Evasions and Oscillations; III. Dualities, Indeterminacy, Literature; Notes; Chapter 3 HOSPITALITY IN HOUSEKEEPING (1980); I. Keeping House, Amid Loss; II. "If I Had Been Th ere"; III. Transiency; IV. A Closure that Resists; Notes; Chapter 4 VIOLENCE IN BLOOD MERIDIAN (1985); I. Defying Expression; II. "Language Usurps Th ings"; III. The Failed Promise of "Optical Democracy"; IV. Violations of Simile; V. Savagery and Transfi guration; Notes; Chapter 5 TALK IN THE ROAD (2006). I. Dead Landscapes, Strange WordsII. Legacies; III. Sustaining the Mysteries; Notes; Chapter 6 BELATEDNESS IN THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO (2007); I. "What's past is prologue." (Th e Tempest, II: 1: 253); II. Ventriloquisms; III. Postmodern Inflections; IV. Blank Pages; V. Centrifugal Narrative; Notes; EPILOGUE: RESISTING RULES; Note; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX. American fiction 20th century History and criticism. American fiction 21st century History and criticism. Wonder in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94009191 Books and reading. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85015758 Criticism. Roman américain 20e siècle Histoire et critique. Roman américain 21e siècle Histoire et critique. Livres et lecture. Critique. literary criticism. aat criticism. aat Literary theory. bicssc Literary studies: from c 1900 -. bicssc LITERARY CRITICISM Books & Reading. bisacsh LITERARY CRITICISM Semiotics & Theory. bisacsh LITERARY CRITICISM American General. bisacsh American fiction fast Books and reading fast Criticism fast Wonder in literature fast 1900-2099 fast Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast Print version: Mitchell, Lee Clark, 1947- Mere reading. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 9781501329654 (DLC) 2016041961 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1463355 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Mitchell, Lee Clark, 1947- Mere reading : the poetics of wonder in modern American novels / Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Epigraph; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION: SLOWING DOWN; I. Slow Reading and Wonder; II. Symptomatic Reading; III. Missteps of Close Reading; IV. An Ethics of Reading; V. Problems of Paraphrase; VI. Getting It Wrong; VII. Clash of Values; VIII. Late Modernism; IX. A Disruptive Reading; X. Medley of Styles; XI. "Mere" Reading; Notes; Chapter 1 POSSESSION IN THE PROFESSOR'S HOUSE (1925); I. Unnerving Descriptions, Wondrous Visions; II. Defying Sequence; III. Selfl ess Wonder, Yet Possession Persists. IV. Lives SuspendedNotes; Chapter 2 OSCILLATION IN LOLITA (1955); I. Style and Desire; II. Evasions and Oscillations; III. Dualities, Indeterminacy, Literature; Notes; Chapter 3 HOSPITALITY IN HOUSEKEEPING (1980); I. Keeping House, Amid Loss; II. "If I Had Been Th ere"; III. Transiency; IV. A Closure that Resists; Notes; Chapter 4 VIOLENCE IN BLOOD MERIDIAN (1985); I. Defying Expression; II. "Language Usurps Th ings"; III. The Failed Promise of "Optical Democracy"; IV. Violations of Simile; V. Savagery and Transfi guration; Notes; Chapter 5 TALK IN THE ROAD (2006). I. Dead Landscapes, Strange WordsII. Legacies; III. Sustaining the Mysteries; Notes; Chapter 6 BELATEDNESS IN THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO (2007); I. "What's past is prologue." (Th e Tempest, II: 1: 253); II. Ventriloquisms; III. Postmodern Inflections; IV. Blank Pages; V. Centrifugal Narrative; Notes; EPILOGUE: RESISTING RULES; Note; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX. American fiction 20th century History and criticism. American fiction 21st century History and criticism. Wonder in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94009191 Books and reading. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85015758 Criticism. Roman américain 20e siècle Histoire et critique. Roman américain 21e siècle Histoire et critique. Livres et lecture. Critique. literary criticism. aat criticism. aat Literary theory. bicssc Literary studies: from c 1900 -. bicssc LITERARY CRITICISM Books & Reading. bisacsh LITERARY CRITICISM Semiotics & Theory. bisacsh LITERARY CRITICISM American General. bisacsh American fiction fast Books and reading fast Criticism fast Wonder in literature fast |
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