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035 _a(DE-B1597)460030
035 _a(OCoLC)984643801
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082 0 4 _a809.922
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aAlworth, David J.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aSite Reading :
_bFiction, Art, Social Form /
_cDavid J. Alworth.
250 _aPilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2015]
264 4 _c©2016
300 _a1 online resource :
_b16 halftones.
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Illustrations --
_tIntroduction: The Site of the Social --
_t1. Supermarket Sociology (Don Delillo, Andy Warhol) --
_tTest Sites --
_t2. Dumps (William S. Burroughs, Mierle Laderman Ukeles) --
_t3. Roads (Jack Kerouac, Joan Didion, John Chamberlain) --
_t4. Ruins (Thomas Pynchon, Robert Smithson) --
_t5. Asylums (Ralph Ellison, Gordon Parks, Jeff Wall) --
_tAfterword: Site Unseen --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
520 _aSite 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 the sites of fiction, Alworth demonstrates, is to reveal literature as a profound sociological resource, one that simultaneously models and theorizes collective life.Each chapter identifies a particular site as a point of contact for writers and artists-the supermarket for Don DeLillo and Andy Warhol; the dump for William Burroughs and Mierle Laderman Ukeles; the road for Jack Kerouac, Joan Didion, and John Chamberlain; the ruin for Thomas Pynchon and Robert Smithson; and the asylum for Ralph Ellison, Gordon Parks, and Jeff Wall-and shows how this site mediates complex interactions among humans and nonhumans. The result is an interdisciplinary study of American culture that brings together literature, visual art, and social theory to develop a new sociology of literature that emphasizes the sociology in literature.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
650 0 _aCriticism.
650 0 _aSetting (Literature)
650 0 _aSetting (Literature).
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
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