The English Common Reader
Author | : Richard Daniel Altick |
Publisher | : Chicago : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Best sellers |
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Author | : Richard Daniel Altick |
Publisher | : Chicago : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Best sellers |
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Author | : Richard Daniel Altick |
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Total Pages | : 439 |
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Genre | : Books and reading |
ISBN | : 9780608092577 |
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Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1980 |
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Author | : Richard Daniel Altick |
Publisher | : Rourke Publishing (FL) |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1983-04-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780685049822 |
Author | : Richard Daniel Altick |
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Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2003 |
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ISBN | : 9780758124036 |
Author | : Arthur Garfield Kennedy |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Katerina Koutsantoni |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2016-02-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317001575 |
In the first comprehensive study of Virginia Woolf's Common Reader, Katerina Koutsantoni draws on theorists from the fields of sociology, sociolinguistics, philosophy, and literary criticism to investigate the thematic pattern underpinning these books with respect to the persona of the 'common reader'. Though these two volumes are the only ones that Woolf compiled herself, they have seldom been considered as a whole. As a result, what they reveal about Woolf's position with regard to the processes of writing, reading, and critical analysis has not been fully examined. Koutsantoni challenges the critical commonplace that equates Woolf's strategy of self-effacement and personal removal from her works as a necessary compromise that allowed her to achieve authorial recognition in a male-dominated context. Rather, Koutsantoni argues that an investigation of impersonality in Woolf's essays reveals the potential of the genre to function both as a vehicle for the subjective and dialogic expression of the author and reader and as a venue for exploring topics with which the ordinary reader can relate. As she explores and challenges the meaning of impersonality in Woolf's Common Reader, Koutsantoni shows how the related issues of subjectivity, authority, reader-response, intersubjectivity, and dialogism offer useful perspectives from which to examine Woolf's work.
Author | : Adelene Buckland |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 135196190X |
In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of book history. Putting readers at the centre of literary culture, Altick anticipated-and helped produce-fifty years of scholarly inquiry into the ways and means by which the Victorians read. Now, A Return to the Common Reader asks what Altick's concept of the 'common reader' actually means in the wake of a half-century of research. Digging deep into unusual and eclectic archives and hitherto-overlooked sources, its authors give new understanding to the masses of newly literate readers who picked up books in the Victorian period. They find readers in prisons, in the barracks, and around the world, and they remind us of the power of those forgotten readers to find forbidden texts, shape new markets, and drive the production of new reading material across a century. Inspired and informed by Altick's seminal work, A Return to the Common Reader is a cutting-edge collection which dramatically reconfigures our understanding of the ordinary Victorian readers whose efforts and choices changed our literary culture forever.
Author | : David Finkelstein |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415226585 |
The editors illustrate how book history studies have evolved into a broad approach which incorporates social and cultural considerations governing the production, dissemination and reception of print and texts.
Author | : Wayne C. Booth |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 573 |
Release | : 2010-05-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226065596 |
The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, and its concepts and terms—such as "the implied author," "the postulated reader," and "the unreliable narrator"—have become part of the standard critical lexicon. For this new edition, Wayne C. Booth has written an extensive Afterword in which he clarifies misunderstandings, corrects what he now views as errors, and sets forth his own recent thinking about the rhetoric of fiction. The other new feature is a Supplementary Bibliography, prepared by James Phelan in consultation with the author, which lists the important critical works of the past twenty years—two decades that Booth describes as "the richest in the history of the subject."