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03173aam a2200433 i 4500 001 178E4FAE6B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 151022t20162016enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015029230 020 $a 1137553626 020 $a 9781137553621 035 $a (OCoLC)945752499 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c PUL $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS371 K66 2016 100 1 $a Farr, Cecilia Konchar, $d 1958- $e author. 245 14 $a The Ulysses delusion : $b rethinking standards of literary merit / $c Cecilia Konchar Farr. 264 1 $a Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2016. 300 $a xx, 199 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a American literature readings in the 21st century 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index. 505 0 $a Preface: Ransoming a Reading Nation -- Come and Get it -- Bring Money -- Reading Lolita at St. Kate's -- Oprah's Book Club and the Summer of Faulkner -- Lost in a Chick Lit Austenland -- What I learned from The (Book) Group -- Storytelling with Jodi Picoult -- Rereading Rand -- Writing Wizardry -- Redefining Excellence. 520 $a "This book asks how avid readers and literary professionals have come to assess novels so differently. Why are the most read novels seldom reviewed, the most celebrated novels often unpopular? Examining the US novel's lively history, "America, We Have Your Novel" provokes conversations that affirm the democratic roots of our reading nation"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Fiction $x History. $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Popular literature $z United States $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Books and reading $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Social values in literature. 650 0 $a Criticism $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Feminist literary criticism $z United States. 830 0 $a American literature readings in the 21st century. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171221053857.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826050353.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=178E4FAE6B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search