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1 online resource (xxviii, 379 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Understanding an other: reading as a receptive form of communicative action / Patrocinio Schweickart -- Judging and hoping: rhetorical effects of reading about reading / Steven Mailloux -- Activating the multitude: audience powers and cultural studies / Jack Bratich -- Habitus clivé: aesthetics and politics in the work of Pierre Bourdieu / Tony Bennett -- The American reception of Melville's short fiction in the 1850s / James L. Machor -- Placing readers at the forefront of nowhere: reception studies and utopian literature / Kenneth M. Roemer -- Richard Wright's Native son: from naturalist protests to modernist liberation and beyond / Philip Goldstein -- Main street reading Main street / Amy L. Blair -- Learning from Philistines: suspicion, refusing to read, and the rise of dubious modernism / Leonard Diepeveen -- Reception and authenticity: Danny Santiago's Famous all over town / Marcial González -- Discourses in dialogue: the reception of Alix Kates Shulman's Memoirs of an ex-prom queen / Charlotte Templin -- The power of recirculation: scrapbooks and the reception of the nineteenth-century press / Ellen Gruber Garvey -- Accuracy or fair play? complaining about the newspaper in early twentieth-century New York / David Paul Nord -- Sentiment without tears: Uncle Tom's cabin as history in the 1890s / Barbara Hochman -- Kiss me deadly: cold war threats from Spillane to Aldrich, New York to Los Angeles, and the mafia to the H-bomb / Janet Staiger -- Textual poaching or gamekeeping? a comparative study of two Six feet under fan forums / Rhiannon Bury -- Political talk and the flow of ambient television: women watching Oprah in an African American hair salon / Andrea Press and Camille Johnson-Yale -- What's the matter with reception study? some thoughts on the disciplinary origins, conceptual constraints, and persistent viability of a paradigm / Janice Radway -- The reception deception / Toby Miller. |
| Summary |
Introduction: Reception Study: Achievements and New Directions, Philip Goldstein and James L. Machor. I. (Re)Theorizing Reception Study. "Understanding an Other: Reading as a Receptive Form of Communicative Action", Patrocinio Schweickart. "Judging and Hoping: Rhetorical Effects of Reading about Reading.", Steven Mailloux. "Activating the Multitude: Audience Powers and Cultural Studies", Jack Bratich. "Habitus Clive: Aesthetics and Politics in the Work of Pierre Bourdieu", Tony Bennett. II. Texts, Authors, and the Receptions of Literature. "The Amer. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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American literature. |
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Reader-response criticism -- United States.
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Reader-response criticism. |
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United States. |
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Books and reading -- United States.
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Books and reading. |
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Mass media -- Audiences.
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Mass media -- Audiences. |
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Electronic books.
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Goldstein, Philip.
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Machor, James L.
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| Cover Title |
American reception study |
| Other Form: |
Print version: New directions in American reception study. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008 (DLC) 2007013837 |
| ISBN |
9780198043287 (electronic book) |
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0198043287 (electronic book) |
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1281165271 |
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9781281165275 |
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9780195320879 (acid-free paper) |
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0195320875 (acid-free paper) |
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9780195320886 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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0195320883 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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