Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form

by David J. Alworth

Book Overview

Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites--supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums--that have been crucial to American literature and visual art since the mid-twentieth century. Against the traditional understanding of setting as a static background for narrative action and character development, David Alworth argues that sites figure in novels...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691164495
• ISBN13: 9780691164496
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.1"