New Directions In American Reception Study - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0195320883 ISBN 13: 9780195320886

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2008

Riassunto

Contemporary reception study has developed a diversity of approaches and methods, including the institutional, textual, historical, authorial, and reader-response, which, to a greater or lesser extent, acknowledge the various ways in which readers have found texts-literature, television shows, movies, and newspapers-meaningful. This collection emphasizes that new diversity, examining movies, newspapers, fans, television shows, and traditional American as well as modern Hispan

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L'autore

Philip Goldstein is a Professor of English at the University of Delaware. James Machor is a Professor of English at Kansas State University.

Contenuti

• Philip Goldstein and James L. Machor: Introduction: Reception Study: Achievements and New Directions
• I. (Re)Theorizing Reception Study
• Patrocinio Schweickart: "Understanding an Other: Reading as a Receptive Form of Communicative Action"
• Steven Mailloux: "Judging and Hoping: Rhetorical Effects of Reading about Reading"
• Jack Bratich: "Activating the Multitude: Audience Powers and Cultural Studies"
• Tony Bennett: "Habitus Clivé: Aesthetics and Politics in the Work of Pierre Bourdieu"
• II. Texts, Authors, and the Receptions of Literature
• James L. Machor: "The American Reception of Melville's Short Fiction in the 1850s"
• Kenneth Roemer: "Placing Readers at the Forefront of Nowhere: Reception and Utopian Literature"
• Philip Goldstein: "Richard Wright's Native Son: From Naturalist Protest to Modernist Liberation and Beyond"
• Amy Blair: "Main Street Reading Main Street"
• Leonard Diepeveen: "Learning from Philistines: Suspicion, Refusing to Read,and the Rise of Dubious Modernism"
• Marcial González: "Reception and Authenticity: Danny Santiago's Famous All Over Town"
• Charlotte Templin:
• III. Books, Print Culture, and Historical Sites of Reception
• Ellen Gruber Garvey: "The Power of Recirculation: Scrapbooks and the Reception of the Nineteenth-Century Press"
• David Paul Nord: "Accuracy or Fair Play? Complaining About Newspapers in Early Twentieth-Century New York"
• Barbara Hochman: "Sentiment without Tears: Uncle Tom's Cabin as History in the 1890s"
• IV. Media and Cultural Studies
• Janet Staiger: "Kiss Me Deadly: Cold War Threats from Spillane to Aldrich, NY to LA, and the Mafia to the H-Bomb"
• Rhiannon Bury: "Textual Poaching or Game Keeping? A Comparative Study of Two Six Feet Under Internet Fan Forums"
• Andrea Press and Camille Johnson-Yale: "Political Talk and the Flow of Ambient Television: Women Watching Oprah in an African-American Hair Salon"
• V. Retrospective Prospects
• Janice Radway: "What's the Matter with Reception Studies? Some Thoughts on the Disciplinary Origins, Conceptual Restraints, and Persistent Viability of a Paradigm"
• Toby Miller: "The Reception Deception"
• David Paul Nord: "Accuracy or Fair Play? Complaining
• About Newspapers in Early Twentieth-Century New York"
• Barbara Hochman:
• Tom's Cabin as History in the 1890s"
• IV. Media and Cultural Studies
• Janet Staiger: "Kiss Me Deadly: Cold War Threatsfrom Spillane to Aldrich, NY to LA, and the Mafia to the H-Bomb"
• H-Bomb"

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195320883
• ISBN 13: 9780195320886
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 408
• Redattore: Goldstein Philip
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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