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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Emre, Merve
Titre(s) : Paraliterary [Texte imprimé] : the making of bad readers in postwar America / Merve Emre
Publication : Chicago : the University of Chicago press, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (286 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-277) and index
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 the author's tongue-in-cheek term,
"bad" readers. They read fiction and poetry to be moved, distracted, instructed, improved,
engaged as citizens. The author of this book argues that we should 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, she 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
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Making of Bad readers in postwar America
Sujet(s) : Livres et lecture -- États-Unis -- 1945-1990
Livres et lecture -- Sociologie -- États-Unis
Goût de la lecture -- États-Unis -- 1945-1990
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226473970. - ISBN 022647397X. - ISBN 9780226473833. - ISBN 022647383X. -
ISBN 9780226474021 (erroné). - ISBN 022647402X. - ISBN 9780226474021
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45498835h
Notice n° :
FRBNF45498835
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: pop quiz ; Reading as imitation ; Reading as feeling ; Brand reading
; Sight reading ; Reading like a bureaucrat ; Reading like a revolutionary ; Conclusion:
retracing one's steps.
