New directions in American reception study [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Philip Goldstein and James L. Machor

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (408 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9
• Soggetto topico: American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc; Reader-response criticism - United States; Books and reading - United States; Mass media - Audiences
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: GoldsteinPhilip MachorJames L
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Understanding an other: reading as a receptive form of communicative action / Patrocinio Schweickart -- Judging and hoping: rhetorical effects of reading about reading / Steven Mailloux -- Activating the multitude: audience powers and cultural studies / Jack Bratich -- Habitus clivé: aesthetics and politics in the work of Pierre Bourdieu / Tony Bennett -- The American reception of Melville's short fiction in the 1850s / James L. Machor -- Placing readers at the forefront of nowhere: reception studies and utopian literature / Kenneth M. Roemer -- Richard Wright's Native son: from naturalist protests to modernist liberation and beyond / Philip Goldstein -- Main street reading Main street / Amy L. Blair -- Learning from Philistines: suspicion, refusing to read, and the rise of dubious modernism / Leonard Diepeveen -- Reception and authenticity: Danny Santiago's Famous all over town / Marcial González -- Discourses in dialogue: the reception of Alix Kates Shulman's Memoirs of an ex-prom queen / Charlotte Templin -- The power of recirculation: scrapbooks and the reception of the nineteenth-century press / Ellen Gruber Garvey -- Accuracy or fair play? complaining about the newspaper in early twentieth-century New York / David Paul Nord -- Sentiment without tears: Uncle Tom's cabin as history in the 1890s / Barbara Hochman -- Kiss me deadly: cold war threats from Spillane to Aldrich, New York to Los Angeles, and the mafia to the H-bomb / Janet Staiger -- Textual poaching or gamekeeping? a comparative study of two Six feet under fan forums / Rhiannon Bury -- Political talk and the flow of ambient television: women watching Oprah in an African American hair salon / Andrea Press and Camille Johnson-Yale -- What's the matter with reception study? some thoughts on the disciplinary origins, conceptual constraints, and persistent viability of a paradigm / Janice Radway -- The reception deception / Toby Miller.
• Sommario/riassunto: Introduction: Reception Study: Achievements and New Directions, Philip Goldstein and James L. Machor. I. (Re)Theorizing Reception Study. ""Understanding an Other: Reading as a Receptive Form of Communicative Action"", Patrocinio Schweickart. ""Judging and Hoping: Rhetorical Effects of Reading about Reading."", Steven Mailloux. ""Activating the Multitude: Audience Powers and Cultural Studies"", Jack Bratich. ""Habitus Clive: Aesthetics and Politics in the Work of Pierre Bourdieu"", Tony Bennett. II. Texts, Authors, and the Receptions of Literature. ""The American Reception of Melville's Short...
• Titolo autorizzato: New directions in American reception study
• ISBN: 0-19-532088-3; 1-281-16527-1; 9786611165277; 0-19-804328-7; 1-4356-1791-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451908703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II