New directions in American reception study [electronic resource] / edited by Philip Goldstein and James L. Machor.

Contributor(s): Goldstein, Philip | Machor, James L | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008Description: xxviii, 379 p. : illOther title: American reception study [Cover title]Subject(s): American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | Reader-response criticism -- United States | Books and reading -- United States | Mass media -- AudiencesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9 LOC classification: PS62 | .N48 2008Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Understanding an other: reading as a receptive form of communicative action / Patrocinio Schweickart -- Judging and hoping: rhetorical effects of reading about reading / Steven Mailloux -- Activating the multitude: audience powers and cultural studies / Jack Bratich -- Habitus clive: aesthetics and politics in the work of Pierre Bourdieu / Tony Bennett -- The American reception of Melville's short fiction in the 1850s / James L. Machor -- Placing readers at the forefront of nowhere: reception studies and utopian literature / Kenneth M. Roemer -- Richard Wright's Native son: from naturalist protests to modernist liberation and beyond / Philip Goldstein -- Main street reading Main street / Amy L. Blair -- Learning from Philistines: suspicion, refusing to read, and the rise of dubious modernism / Leonard Diepeveen -- Reception and authenticity: Danny Santiago's Famous all over town / Marcial Gonzalez -- Discourses in dialogue: the reception of Alix Kates Shulman's Memoirs of an ex-prom queen / Charlotte Templin -- The power of recirculation: scrapbooks and the reception of the nineteenth-century press / Ellen Gruber Garvey -- Accuracy or fair play? complaining about the newspaper in early twentieth-century New York / David Paul Nord -- Sentiment without tears: Uncle Tom's cabin as history in the 1890s / Barbara Hochman -- Kiss me deadly: cold war threats from Spillane to Aldrich, New York to Los Angeles, and the mafia to the H-bomb / Janet Staiger -- Textual poaching or gamekeeping? a comparative study of two Six feet under fan forums / Rhiannon Bury -- Political talk and the flow of ambient television: women watching Oprah in an African American hair salon / Andrea Press and Camille Johnson-Yale -- What's the matter with reception study? some thoughts on the disciplinary origins, conceptual constraints, and persistent viability of a paradigm / Janice Radway -- The reception deception / Toby Miller.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Understanding an other: reading as a receptive form of communicative action / Patrocinio Schweickart -- Judging and hoping: rhetorical effects of reading about reading / Steven Mailloux -- Activating the multitude: audience powers and cultural studies / Jack Bratich -- Habitus clive: aesthetics and politics in the work of Pierre Bourdieu / Tony Bennett -- The American reception of Melville's short fiction in the 1850s / James L. Machor -- Placing readers at the forefront of nowhere: reception studies and utopian literature / Kenneth M. Roemer -- Richard Wright's Native son: from naturalist protests to modernist liberation and beyond / Philip Goldstein -- Main street reading Main street / Amy L. Blair -- Learning from Philistines: suspicion, refusing to read, and the rise of dubious modernism / Leonard Diepeveen -- Reception and authenticity: Danny Santiago's Famous all over town / Marcial Gonzalez -- Discourses in dialogue: the reception of Alix Kates Shulman's Memoirs of an ex-prom queen / Charlotte Templin -- The power of recirculation: scrapbooks and the reception of the nineteenth-century press / Ellen Gruber Garvey -- Accuracy or fair play? complaining about the newspaper in early twentieth-century New York / David Paul Nord -- Sentiment without tears: Uncle Tom's cabin as history in the 1890s / Barbara Hochman -- Kiss me deadly: cold war threats from Spillane to Aldrich, New York to Los Angeles, and the mafia to the H-bomb / Janet Staiger -- Textual poaching or gamekeeping? a comparative study of two Six feet under fan forums / Rhiannon Bury -- Political talk and the flow of ambient television: women watching Oprah in an African American hair salon / Andrea Press and Camille Johnson-Yale -- What's the matter with reception study? some thoughts on the disciplinary origins, conceptual constraints, and persistent viability of a paradigm / Janice Radway -- The reception deception / Toby Miller.

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