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Author:

Armstrong, Paul B., 1949-

Title:

Play and the politics of reading : the social uses of modernist form / Paul B. Armstrong.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xv, 207 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Books and reading--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Literary form--History--20th century.
Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
Letterkunde.
Lezen.
Modernisme (cultuur)
Politieke aspecten.
Sociale aspecten.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-202) and index.

Contents:

1: Theory -- The politics of reading: nonconsensual reciprocity and the negotiation of differences -- Play, power, and difference: the social implications of Iser's aesthetic theory -- Being "out of place": Edward Said and the contradictions of cultural differences -- 2: Criticism -- Art and the construction of community in "the death of the lion" -- Historicizing Conrad: temporal form and the politics of reading -- Misogyny and the ethics of reading: the problem of Conrad's chance -- Liberalism and the politics of form: the ambiguous narrative voice in Howards end -- Reading India: the double turns of Forster's pragmatism -- James Joyce and the politics of reading: power, belief, and justice in Ulysses -- Pedagogical postscript: liberal education, the English major, and pluralistic literacy.

ISBN:

9780801443251 (alk. paper)
0801443253 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2004018217

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)