Description: Mere Reading by Professor Lee Clark Mitchell, Lee Clark Mitchell Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description "Argues through close readings of twentieth-century American novels for a return to the foundations of literary study"-- Publisher Description Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year 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 Cathers The Professors House, Vladimir Nabokovs Lolita, Marilynne Robinsons Housekeeping, Cormac McCarthys Blood Meridian and The Road, and Junot Díazs 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 Johnsons 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. Author Biography Lee Clark Mitchell is Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres at Princeton University, USA. Among his previous publications are Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth-Century Response (1981), Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film (1996), and Determined Fictions: American Literary Naturalism (1989). Details ISBN 1501329650 ISBN-13 9781501329654 Title Mere Reading Author Professor Lee Clark Mitchell, Lee Clark Mitchell Format Hardcover Year 2017 Pages 280 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc GE_Item_ID:117661980; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9781501329654
Book Title: Mere Reading
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Mere Reading : the Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Subject: American / General, Semiotics & Theory, Books & Reading
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 16.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Author: Lee Clark Mitchell
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
