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Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form
Professor David J. Alworth
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Description for Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464.
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 as social agents. Engaging a wide range of social and cultural theorists, especially Bruno Latour and Erving Goffman, Site Reading examines how the literary figuration of real, material environments reorients our sense of social relations. To ... Read more
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 as social agents. Engaging a wide range of social and cultural theorists, especially Bruno Latour and Erving Goffman, Site Reading examines how the literary figuration of real, material environments reorients our sense of social relations. To ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691164496
SKU
V9780691164496
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About Professor David J. Alworth
David J. Alworth is assistant professor of English and of History and Literature at Harvard University.
Reviews for Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form
Winner of the 2016 Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction, Media Ecology Association