The Ulysses delusion : rethinking standards of literary merit / Cecilia Konchar Farr.

• Machine generated contents note: -- Preface: Ransoming a Reading Nation -- PART I: THE CRIME -- 1. Come and Get it -- 2. Bring Money -- PART II: INVESTIGATIONS -- 3. Reading Lolita at St. Kate's -- 4. Oprah's Book Club and the Summer of Faulkner -- 5. Lost in a Chick Lit Austenland -- 6. What I learned from The (Book) Group -- 7. Storytelling with Jodi Picoult -- 8. Re-Reading Rand -- 9. Writing Wizardry -- PART III: THE DEAL -- 10. Redefining Excellence.

• "Popular fiction follows literature professors wherever they go. At coffee shops or out for drinks, after faculty meetings or classes, even at family reunions - they are persistently pressed to talk about bestselling novels. Questions immediately follow: What do I mean when I say a book is "good"? Why do contemporary novels like these, conversations like these, matter to professors of literature? Shouldn't they be spending their time re-reading The Great Gatsby? The Ulysses Delusion confronts these questions and answers their call for more engaged conversations about books. Through topics like the Oprah's Book Club, Harry Potter, and Chick Lit, Cecilia Konchar Farr explores the lively, democratic, and gendered history of novels in the US as a context for understanding how avid readers and literary professionals have come to assess them so differently"-- 
• "This book asks how avid readers and literary professionals have come to assess novels so differently. Why are the most read novels seldom reviewed, the most celebrated novels often unpopular? Examining the US novel's lively history, "America, We Have Your Novel" provokes conversations that affirm the democratic roots of our reading nation"-- 

Ämnesord

Amerikansk litteratur  (sao)

Populärlitteratur  (sao)

Böcker och läsning  (sao)

Läsvanor  (sao)

Social values in literature.  (LCSH)

American fiction  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Fiction  -- Appreciation -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

Popular literature  -- United States -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Books and reading  -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

Criticism  -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

Feminist literary criticism  -- United States. (LCSH)

LITERARY CRITICISM / General.  (bisacsh)

LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist.  (bisacsh)

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.  (bisacsh)

LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors.  (bisacsh)

Litteratur  -- attityder till (sao)

Romaner  -- mottagande (sao)

American literature  (LCSH)

Books and reading  (LCSH)

Popular literature  (LCSH)

Books and reading  (LCSH)

Förenta staterna  (sao)

Genre

Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Essäer  (saogf)

Klassifikation

PS371 (LCC)

813.009 (DDC)