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100 1  Mitchell, Lee Clark,|d1947-|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/names/n81011833|eauthor. 
245 10 Mere reading :|bthe poetics of wonder in modern American 
       novels /|cLee Clark Mitchell. 
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264  1 New York :|bBloomsbury Academic,|c2017. 
300    1 online resource 
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504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; 
       Epigraph; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 
       ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION: SLOWING DOWN; I. Slow Reading
       and Wonder; II. Symptomatic Reading; III. Missteps of 
       Close Reading; IV. An Ethics of Reading; V. Problems of 
       Paraphrase; VI. Getting It Wrong; VII. Clash of Values; 
       VIII. Late Modernism; IX. A Disruptive Reading; X. Medley 
       of Styles; XI. "Mere" Reading; Notes; Chapter 1 POSSESSION
       IN THE PROFESSOR'S HOUSE (1925); I. Unnerving Descriptions,
       Wondrous Visions; II. Defying Sequence; III. Selfl ess 
       Wonder, Yet Possession Persists. 
505 8  IV. Lives SuspendedNotes; Chapter 2 OSCILLATION IN LOLITA 
       (1955); I. Style and Desire; II. Evasions and 
       Oscillations; III. Dualities, Indeterminacy, Literature; 
       Notes; Chapter 3 HOSPITALITY IN HOUSEKEEPING (1980); I. 
       Keeping House, Amid Loss; II. "If I Had Been Th ere"; III.
       Transiency; IV. A Closure that Resists; Notes; Chapter 4 
       VIOLENCE IN BLOOD MERIDIAN (1985); I. Defying Expression; 
       II. "Language Usurps Th ings"; III. The Failed Promise of 
       "Optical Democracy"; IV. Violations of Simile; V. Savagery
       and Transfi guration; Notes; Chapter 5 TALK IN THE ROAD 
       (2006). 
505 8  I. Dead Landscapes, Strange WordsII. Legacies; III. 
       Sustaining the Mysteries; Notes; Chapter 6 BELATEDNESS IN 
       THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO (2007); I. "What's 
       past is prologue." (Th e Tempest, II: 1: 253); II. 
       Ventriloquisms; III. Postmodern Inflections; IV. Blank 
       Pages; V. Centrifugal Narrative; Notes; EPILOGUE: 
       RESISTING RULES; Note; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX. 
520    "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."--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
520    "Argues through close readings of twentieth-century 
       American novels for a return to the foundations of 
       literary study"--|cProvided by publisher. 
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590    eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic 
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648  7 21st century|2fast 
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650  0 American fiction|y20th century|xHistory and criticism.
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650  0 American fiction|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh85004317|y21st century|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh2002012478|xHistory and criticism.|0https://
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650  0 Wonder in literature.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh94009191 
650  0 Books and reading.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
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650  0 Criticism.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
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