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High resolution : critical theory and the problem of literacy / Henry S. Sussman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sussman, Henry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- American literature.
- Criticism--United States.
- Criticism.
- Literacy--United States.
- Literacy.
- Critical theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book combines literary theory and close textual readings of works by Hawthorne, Melville, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound and Italo Calvino to explore the socio-political correlatives to literary studies.
- Contents:
- Contents; 1. Toward Differential Literacy: The Pursuit of Rigor in the Age of Kitsch; 2. The Marble Faun and the Space of American Letters; 3. The Deconstructor and the Politician: Melville's The Confidence-Man; 4. The University of Verse: The Economies of Modern American Poetry; 5. The Expanding Castle: The Literature of Literacy; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-245) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-52350-6
- 0-19-536369-8
- OCLC:
- 252584511
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