The Crafty Reader - Hardcover

Scholes, Robert E

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300090153 ISBN 13: 9780300090154

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2001

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Book by Robert Scholes

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"I believe that it is in our interest as individuals to become crafty readers, and in the interest of the nation to educate citizens in the craft of reading. The craft, not the art... This book is about that craft." from the Introduction "This book continues Robert Scholes's heroic effort to shift the traditional study of literature toward rhetoric and textuality. The Crafty Reader shows brilliantly that reading the world as a 'text' need not involve any denial of reality." Gerald Graff, University of Illinois at Chicago

Reseña del editor:

This latest book from the well-known literary critic Robert Scholes presents his thoughtful exploration of the craft of reading. He deals with reading not as an art or performance given by a virtuoso reader, but as a craft that can be studied, taught, and learned. Those who master the craft of reading, Scholes contends, will justifiably take responsibility for the readings they produce and the texts they choose to read. Scholes begins with a critique of the New Critical way of reading ("bad for poets and poetry and really terrible for students and teachers of poetry"), using examples of poems by various writers, in particular Edna St. Vincent Millay. He concludes with a consideration of the strengths and weaknesses of the fundamentalist way of reading texts regarded as sacred. To explain and clarify the approach of the crafty reader, the author analyses a wide-ranging selection of texts by figures at the margins of the literary and cultural canon, including Norman Rockwell, Anais Nin, Dashiell Hammett, and J. K. Rowling. Throughout his discussion Scholes emphasises how concepts of genre affect the reading process and how they may work to exclude certain texts from the cultural canon and curriculum.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0300090153
• ISBN 13: 9780300090154
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272