Modern American Reading Practices: Between Aesthetics and History

by Philip Goldstein

In this thoughtful study, Phillip Goldstein shows how the valuation of aesthetics in literary criticism has become increasingly complicated in recent decades. Contemporary readers not only need to look at the text's figures and structure, or the author's intention but must take various media, including television, movies, magazines, and newspapers; as well as the sexuality, gender, race, or nationality of the author, media, or text into account. In...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230612253
• ISBN13: 9780230612259
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"