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The Oprah affect : critical essays on Oprah's book club / edited by Cecilia Konchar Farr and Jaime Harker.

Van Pelt Library LC6651 .O67 2008
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Farr, Cecilia Konchar, 1958-
Harker, Jaime.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Winfrey, Oprah.
Book clubs (Discussion groups)--United States.
Book clubs (Discussion groups).
Books and reading--United States.
Books and reading.
United States.
Literature and society--United States.
Literature and society.
Winfrey, Oprah--Influence.
Oprah Winfrey show (Television program).
Physical Description:
ix, 347 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2008]
Contents:
Introduction / Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr
Oprah in the public library / Juliette Wells and Virginia Wells
Talking readers / Cecilia Konchar Farr
Reading religiously : the ritual practices of Oprah's book club / Katherine Lofton
The romance of reading like Oprah / Yung-Hsing Wu
Oprah's book selections : teleliterature for the Oprah Winfrey Show / Mark Hall
Resisting Paradise : Toni Morrison, Oprah Winfrey, and the middlebrow audience / Michael Perry
Oprah's book club and the politics of cross-racial empathy / Kimberly Chabot Davis
Beware the furrow of the middlebrow : searching for Paradise on the Oprah Winfrey show / Timothy Aubry
"Did Isabel Allende write this book for me?" : Oprah's book club reads Daughter of fortune / Ana Patricia Rodríquez
The trouble with happy endings : conflicting narratives in Oprah's book club / Kelley Penfield Lewis
Your book changed my life : everyday literary criticism and Oprah's book club / Kate Douglas
Correcting Oprah : Jonathan Franzen and the uses of literature in the therapeutic age / Kevin Quirk
The way we read now : Oprah Winfrey, intellectuals, and democracy / Simon Stow
Everything old is new again : Oprah's book club returns with the classics / Kathleen Rooney
Afterward : Oprah, James Frey, and the problem of the literary / Jaime Harker.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780791476154
0791476154
9780791476161
0791476162
OCLC:
190875047

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