Modern American Reading Practices: Between Aesthetics and History - Hardcover

Goldstein, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230612253 ISBN 13: 9780230612259

Verlag: AIAA, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

In this thoughtful study, Phillip Goldstein shows how the valuation of aesthetics in literary criticism has become increasingly complicated in recent decades. Contemporary readers not only need to look at the text's figures and structure, or the author's intention but must take various media, including television, movies, magazines, and newspapers; as well as the sexuality, gender, race, or nationality of the author, media, or text into account. In this context, Goldstein argues that the study of modern reading practices most effectively preserves the autonomy of aesthetics while revealing the changing social and historical contexts of American readers. Using pluralist perspectives on novels such as Frankenstein, Huckleberry Finn, Native Son, Light in August, and Jazz, this study suggests that these new historical conditions have markedly expanded and transformed the ways in which Americans have defined and read literature in the last two hundred years.

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PHILIP GOLDSTEIN is Professor of English, University of Delaware, USA.

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• Verlag: AIAA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0230612253
• ISBN 13: 9780230612259
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 190
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