High Resolution: Critical Theory and the Problem of Literacy - Couverture rigide

Sussman, Henry S.

 
9780195055030: High Resolution: Critical Theory and the Problem of Literacy
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0195055039 ISBN 13 : 9780195055030
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1989

Synopsis

At the heart of this important new book is the tension between literacy and the open acknowledgement of discrepancies within social and linguistic fields on the one hand, and what Sussman terms the resolving function, the utopian picture of harmony depicted by the state and large organizations, on the other. Combining literary theory with close textual readings of works by Hawthorne, Melville, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and Italo Calvino, this book is the first to explore the socio-political correlatives to literary studies - the mass media's ambivalence towards the linguistic apprehensions and skills that make them possible.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

At the heart of this important new book is the tension between literacy and the open acknowledgement of discrepancies within social and linguistic fields on the one hand, and what Sussman terms the resolving function, the utopian picture of harmony depicted by the state and large organizations, on the other. Combining literary theory with close textual readings of works by Hawthorne, Melville, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and Italo Calvino, this book is the first to explore the socio-political correlatives to literary studies - the mass media's ambivalence towards the linguistic apprehensions and skills that make them possible.

Revue de presse

'This book confronts an important and timely subject from a unique point of view ... Sussman's book makes a brilliant contribution to the thinking through of the question it poses.' J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
1989
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195055039
ISBN 13 
9780195055030
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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