Play and the politics of reading: the social uses of modernist form
"Reading is socially useful, in Paul B. Armstrong's view, and can model democratic interaction by a community unconstrained by the need to build consensus but aware of the dangers of violence, irrationality, and anarchy. Reading requires mutual recognition but need not culminate in agreeme...
| Summary: | "Reading is socially useful, in Paul B. Armstrong's view, and can model democratic interaction by a community unconstrained by the need to build consensus but aware of the dangers of violence, irrationality, and anarchy. Reading requires mutual recognition but need not culminate in agreement, Armstrong says; instead, the social potential of reading arises from the active exchange of attitudes, ideas, and values between author and reader and among readers. Play and the Politics of Reading, which has important implications for education, draws on Wolfgang Iser's notion of free play to offer a valuable response to social problems."--Jacket 1: Theory -- The politics of reading: nonconsensual reciprocity and the negotiation of differences -- Play, power, and difference: the social implications of Iser's aesthetic theory -- Being "out of place": Edward Said and the contradictions of cultural differences -- 2: Criticism -- Art and the construction of community in "the death of the lion" -- Historicizing Conrad: temporal form and the politics of reading -- Misogyny and the ethics of reading: the problem of Conrad's chance -- Liberalism and the politics of form: the ambiguous narrative voice in Howards end -- Reading India: the double turns of Forster's pragmatism -- James Joyce and the politics of reading: power, belief, and justice in Ulysses -- Pedagogical postscript: liberal education, the English major, and pluralistic literacy |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 207 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0-8014-4325-3 1-5017-2065-1 978-0-8014-4325-1 978-1-5017-2065-9 |
