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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777495403321

Autore

Sussman Henry

Titolo

High resolution [[electronic resource] ] : critical theory and the problem of literacy / / Henry S. Sussman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989

ISBN

1-280-52350-6

0-19-536369-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

810/.9

Soggetti

American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Criticism - United States

Literacy - United States

Critical theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-245) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Toward Differential Literacy: The Pursuit of Rigor in the Age of Kitsch; 2. The Marble Faun and the Space of American Letters; 3. The Deconstructor and the Politician: Melville's The Confidence-Man; 4. The University of Verse: The Economies of Modern American Poetry; 5. The Expanding Castle: The Literature of Literacy; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

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.