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200 1. $a Mere reading $b Texte imprimé $e the poetics of wonder in modern American novels $f Lee Clark Mitchell
214 .0 $a New York $c Bloomsbury Academic $d 2017
215 .. $a 1 vol. (X, 262 p.) $d 22 cm
300 .. $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254) and index
330 .. $a "Mere Reading argues for a return to the foundations of literary study established
nearly a century ago. Following a recent period dominated by symptomatic analyses
of fictional texts (new historicist, Marxist, feminist, identity-political), Lee Clark
Mitchell joins a burgeoning neo-formalist movement in challenging readers to embrace
a rationale for literary criticism that has too long been ignored-a neglect that corresponds,
perhaps not coincidentally, to a flight from literature courses themselves. In close
readings of six American novels spread over the past century-Willa Cather's The Professor's
House, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, Cormac McCarthy's
Blood Meridian and The Road, and Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao-Mitchell
traces a shifting strain of late modernist innovation that celebrates a species of
magic and wonder, of aesthetic "bliss" (as Barthes and Nabokov both coincidentally
described the experience) that dumbfounds the reader and compels a reassessment of
interpretive assumptions. The novels included here aspire to being read slowly, so
that sounds, rhythms, repetitions, rhymes, and other verbal features take on a heightened
poetic status-in critic Barbara Johnson's words, "the rigorous perversity and seductiveness
of literary language"--Thwarting pressures of plot that otherwise push us ineluctably
forward. In each chapter, the return to "mere reading" becomes paradoxically a gesture
that honors the intractability of fictional texts, their sheer irresolution, indeed
the way in which their "literary" status rests on the play of irreconcilables that
emerges from the verbal tensions we find ourselves first astonished by, then delighting
in."
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