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Theory and Practice of Reception Study

Reading Race and Gender in Twain, Faulkner, Ellison, and Morrison

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvPhilip Goldstein

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This book examines novels of Faulkner and Morrison as well as Mark Twain and Ralph Ellison in order to show that their works forcefully undermine the racial and sexual divisions characterizing both the South and contemporary culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Moreover, the book discusses theories of reader-response and reception study and elaborates a theory of reception study based on the historical or "archeological" methods of Michel Foucault. As a consequence, unlike most studies of American literature, which discuss its historical contexts or prescribe its readers’ responses, this book explains the reception of these works, including the academic criticism and reviews and, because the internet exerts immense influence in the twenty-first century, the on-line responses of ordinary readers. Unlike most reception studies, this book examines the institutional contexts of the readers’ responses.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-01-29
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt420 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Antal sidor212
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032245027

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Introduction: Ch. 1: Aesthetic Theory: From Adorno to Cultural HistoryCh. 2: Reading in History and in Theory Ch. 3: Mark Twain’s Detective Fiction: From The Stolen White Elephant and The Double-Barrelled Detective Story to The Adventures of Pudd’nHead Wilson. Ch. 4: Faulkner’s Subversive Modernism: Light in August Ch. 5: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man: Modernism and Democracy in American LiteratureCh.6: Three Days Before the Shooting: Modernism and Democracy in/and American Literature Ch.7: Toni Morrison’s Beloved: The Forgotten History of Slavery and Patriarchy Ch. 8: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy: The Critique of Patriarchy and History’s Lost Opportunities Conclusion

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