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Mitchell, Lee Clark, (1947-)

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Mere reading : = the poetics of wonder in modern American novels /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mere reading :/ Lee Clark Mitchell.
Reminder of title:	the poetics of wonder in modern American novels /
Author:	Mitchell, Lee Clark,
Published:	New York :Bloomsbury Academic, : c2017.,
Description:	x, 262 p. ;22 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Slowing Down -- 1. Possession in The Professor's House (1925) -- 2. Oscillation in Lolita (1955) -- 3. Hospitality in Housekeeping (1980) -- 4. Violence in Blood Meridian (1985) -- 5. Language in The Road (2006) -- 6. Belatedness in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) -- Epilogue: Resisting Rules -- Bibliography -- Index.
Subject:	American fiction - History and criticism. - 20th century -
ISBN:	9781501329654

Mere reading : = the poetics of wonder in modern American novels /
Mitchell, Lee Clark,1947-

Mere reading :the poetics of wonder in modern American novels /Lee Clark Mitchell. - New York :Bloomsbury Academic,c2017. - x, 262 p. ;22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-254) and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Slowing Down -- 1. Possession in The Professor's House (1925) -- 2. Oscillation in Lolita (1955) -- 3. Hospitality in Housekeeping (1980) -- 4. Violence in Blood Meridian (1985) -- 5. Language in The Road (2006) -- 6. Belatedness in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) -- Epilogue: Resisting Rules -- Bibliography -- Index.

"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."--

ISBN: 9781501329654

LCCN: 2016041961Subjects--Topical Terms:

541495
American fiction
--History and criticism.--20th century

LC Class. No.: PS379 / .M496 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.509

Mere reading : = the poetics of wonder in modern American novels /
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