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Titre: Paraliterary
Condition: Neuf
Sous titres: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America
Auteur: Merve Emre
Format: Poche
EAN: 9780226473970
ISBN: 9780226473970
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Genre: Literary Criticism
Date de publication: 2017-11-16
Description: Literature departments are staffed by, and tend to be focused on turning out, "good" readers attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the vast majority of readers are, to use Merve Emre's tongue-in-cheek term, "bad" readers. They read fiction and poetry to be moved, distracted, instructed, improved, engaged as citizens. How should we think about those readers, and what should we make of the structures, well outside the academy, that generate them? We should, Emre argues, think of such readers not as non-literary but as paraliterary thriving outside the institutions we take as central to the literary world. She traces this phenomenon to the postwar period, when literature played a key role in the rise of American power. At the same time as American universities were producing good readers by the hundreds, many more thousands of bad readers were learning elsewhere to be disciplined public communicators, whether in diplomatic and ambassadorial missions, private and public cultural exchange programs, multinational corporations, or global activist groups.As we grapple with literature's diminished role in the public sphere, Paraliterary suggests a new way to think about literature, its audience, and its potential, one that looks at the civic institutions that have long engaged readers ignored by the academy.
Pays/Région de fabrication: US
Item Height: 23
Item Length: 15.00
Item Width: 2.00
Poids: 454g
Série: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
Sujet: Anglais
Année de publication: 2017

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