The Ulysses Delusion: Rethinking Standards of Literary Merit (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century) - Softcover

Buch 31 von 60: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

Konchar Farr, Cecilia

 
9781349716470: The Ulysses Delusion: Rethinking Standards of Literary Merit (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century)
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ISBN 10: 1349716472 ISBN 13: 9781349716470
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

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Popular fiction follows literature professors wherever they go. At coffee shops or out for drinks, after faculty meetings or classes, even at family reunions – they are persistently pressed to talk about bestselling novels. Questions immediately follow: What do I mean when I say a book is "good"? Why do contemporary novels like these, conversations like these, matter to professors of literature? Shouldn't they be spending their time re-reading The Great Gatsby? The Ulysses Delusion confronts these questions and answers their call for more engaged conversations about books. Through topics like the Oprah's Book Club, Harry Potter, and Chick Lit, Cecilia Konchar Farr explores the lively, democratic, and gendered history of novels in the US as a context for understanding how avid readers and literary professionals have come to assess them so differently.

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Cecilia Konchar Farr is Professor of English at St. Catherine University, USA.

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Popular fiction follows literature professors wherever they go. At coffee shops or out for drinks, after faculty meetings or classes, even at family reunions – they are persistently pressed to talk about bestselling novels. Questions immediately follow: What do I mean when I say a book is "good"? Why do contemporary novels like these, conversations like these, matter to professors of literature? Shouldn't they be spending their time re-reading The Great Gatsby? The Ulysses Delusion confronts these questions and answers their call for more engaged conversations about books. Through topics like the Oprah's Book Club, Harry Potter, and Chick Lit, Cecilia Konchar Farr explores the lively, democratic, and gendered history of novels in the US as a context for understanding how avid readers and literary professionals have come to assess them so differently.

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Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
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Englisch
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1349716472
ISBN 13 
9781349716470
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1
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220
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