Ulysses Delusion

Rethinking Standards of Literary Merit

AvCecilia Konchar Farr

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-01-25
Mått:140 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt:396 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
Antal sidor:199
Upplaga:16001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137553621

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

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"The Ulysses Delusion is an engaging discussion of the contemporary literary marketplace and the tastemakers who have framed discussions of literary quality and served as the gatekeepers to popular success in the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries. Konchar Farr's unapologetic championing of the accessible is both ideologically resonant with her thesis and admirable-she has truly produced a popular literary criticism that is both rigorous and readable." - Amy L. Blair, Associate Professor of English at Marquette University, USA and author of Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States

Innehållsförteckning

Preface: Ransoming a Reading NationPART I: THE CRIME1. Come and Get it 2. Bring Money PART II: INVESTIGATIONS3. Reading Lolita at St. Kate's4. Oprah's Book Club and the Summer of Faulkner5. Lost in a Chick Lit Austenland6. What I learned from The (Book) Group7. Storytelling with Jodi Picoult8. Re-Reading Rand 9. Writing WizardryPART III: THE DEAL 10. Redefining Excellence