Buch, Englisch, 199 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 2824 g
Rethinking Standards of Literary Merit
Buch, Englisch, 199 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 2824 g
Reihe: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
ISBN: 978-1-349-71647-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Popular fiction follows literature professors wherever they go. At coffee shops or out for drinks, after faculty meetings or classes, even at family reunions – they are persistently pressed to talk about bestselling novels. Questions immediately follow: What do I mean when I say a book is "good"? Why do contemporary novels like these, conversations like these, matter to professors of literature? Shouldn't they be spending their time re-reading The Great Gatsby? The Ulysses Delusion confronts these questions and answers their call for more engaged conversations about books. Through topics like the Oprah's Book Club, Harry Potter, and Chick Lit, Cecilia Konchar Farr explores the lively, democratic, and gendered history of novels in the US as a context for understanding how avid readers and literary professionals have come to assess them so differently.
Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
Weitere Infos & Material
Preface: Ransoming a Reading Nation
PART I: THE CRIME
1. Come and Get it
2. Bring Money
PART II: INVESTIGATIONS
3. Reading Lolita at St. Kate's
4. Oprah's Book Club and the Summer of Faulkner
5. Lost in a Chick Lit Austenland
6. What I learned from The (Book) Group
7. Storytelling with Jodi Picoult
8. Re-Reading Rand
9. Writing Wizardry
PART III: THE DEAL
10. Redefining Excellence
