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Reading Up

Name: Reading Up
Brand: Temple University Press,U.S.
SKU: 9781439906675
Price: 319.53 PLN
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Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States

Autor: Amy Blair

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: Temple University Press,U.S.

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A person who reads a book for self-improvement rather than aesthetic pleasure is "reading up." Readi...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Amy Blair

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2011

strony

256

EAN

9781439906675

ISBN

143990667X

Enbook ID

05076015

Wydawca

Temple University Press,U.S.

Waga

522

Wymiary

152 x 229 x 23

Pełny opis

A person who reads a book for self-improvement rather than aesthetic pleasure is "reading up." Reading Up is Amy Blair's engaging study of popular literary critics who promoted reading generally and specific books as vehicles for acquiring cultural competence and economic mobility. Combining methodologies from the history of the book and the history of reading, to mass-cultural studies, reader-response criticism, reception studies, and formalist literary analysis, Blair shows how such critics influenced the choices of striving readers and popularized some elite writers. Framed by an analysis of Hamilton Wright Mabie's role promoting the concept of reading up during his ten-year stint as the cultivator of literary taste for the highly popular Ladies' Home Journal, Reading Up reveals how readers flocked to literary works they would be expected to dislike. Blair shows that while readers could be led to certain books by a trusted adviser, they frequently followed their own path in interpreting them in unexpected ways.