New directions in American reception study
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Oxford ; New York :
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2008.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10211953 |
Table of Contents:
- Understanding an other: reading as a receptive form of communicative action / Patrocinio Schweickart
- Judging and hoping: rhetorical effects of reading about reading / Steven Mailloux
- Activating the multitude: audience powers and cultural studies / Jack Bratich
- Habitus clivβe: aesthetics and politics in the work of Pierre Bourdieu / Tony Bennett
- The American reception of Melville's short fiction in the 1850s / James L. Machor
- Placing readers at the forefront of nowhere: reception studies and utopian literature / Kenneth M. Roemer
- Richard Wright's Native son: from naturalist protests to modernist liberation and beyond / Philip Goldstein
- Main street reading Main street / Amy L. Blair
- Learning from Philistines: suspicion, refusing to read, and the rise of dubious modernism / Leonard Diepeveen
- Reception and authenticity: Danny Santiago's Famous all over town / Marcial Gonzβalez
- Discourses in dialogue: the reception of Alix Kates Shulman's Memoirs of an ex-prom queen / Charlotte Templin
- The power of recirculation: scrapbooks and the reception of the nineteenth-century press / Ellen Gruber Garvey
- Accuracy or fair play? complaining about the newspaper in early twentieth-century New York / David Paul Nord
- Sentiment without tears: Uncle Tom's cabin as history in the 1890s / Barbara Hochman
- Kiss me deadly: cold war threats from Spillane to Aldrich, New York to Los Angeles, and the mafia to the H-bomb / Janet Staiger
- Textual poaching or gamekeeping? a comparative study of two Six feet under fan forums / Rhiannon Bury
- Political talk and the flow of ambient television: women watching Oprah in an African American hair salon / Andrea Press and Camille Johnson-Yale
- What's the matter with reception study? some thoughts on the disciplinary origins, conceptual constraints, and persistent viability of a paradigm / Janice Radway
- The reception deception / Toby Miller.