Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-245) and index.
Contents
Toward differential literacy: the pursuit of rigor in the age of kitsch -- The marble faun and the space of American letters -- The deconstructor and the politician: Melville's The confidence-man -- The university of verse: the economics of modern American poetry -- The expanding castle: the literature of literacy.
Summary
This book combines literary theory and close textual readings of works by Hawthorne, Melville, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound and Italo Calvino to explore the socio-political correlatives to literary studies.
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