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Calibrations: Reading For The Social
Ato Quayson
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Paperback. Series: Public Worlds Series. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 302.
Proposes an entirely new socially and politically conscious way of reading
Ato Quayson explores a practice of reading that oscillates rapidly between domains—the literary-aesthetic, the social, the cultural, and the political—in order to uncover the mutually illuminating nature of these domains. He does this not to assert the often repeated postmodernist view that there is nothing outside the text, but to outline a method of reading he calls calibrations: a form of close reading of literature with what lies beyond it as a way of understanding structures of transformation, process, and contradiction that inform both literature and society.
Quayson surveys a wide ... Read more Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Public Worlds Series
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816638406
SKU
V9780816638406
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About Ato Quayson
Ato Quayson is director of the African Studies Centre, lecturer in English, and fellow of Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge.
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