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In an era when many scholars and critics can't seem to see the forest of literature for the trees of theory, objective readings of texts are few and far between. In Devotions to the Text, Steven Carter seeks to counter this trend by demonstrating that Samuel Johnson's admonition to "empty your mind of cant" is still sage advice for today's readers, both private and professional. Devotions to the Text constitutes a bold act of rebellion against those who would transform texts into mirrors that reflect only their own ideas and/or ideologies.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Foreword by Edwin J. Barton
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 From Room to Room: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum"
Chapter 5 The Two Tarns: Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" and Chapter II of Henry David Thoreau's Walden
Chapter 6 The Reader Erect: Poe's "The Premature Burial"
Chapter 7 The First Hero of Relativism: Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware
Chapter 8 "Can't You See One Pace Before You?:" Franz Kafka's The Trial and Charles Baudelaire's Paris Spleen
Chapter 9 "You Better Have another Piece:" Ernest Hemingway's "Ten Indians" and William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
Chapter 10 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Alive: Hemingway's "The Killers"
Chapter 11 Interlude: ABC of Thinking
Chapter 12 Estragon's Ancient Wound: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
Chapter 13 "George and Martha: Sad, Sad, Sad:" Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Chapter 14 "Plants Were Like People:" Jerzy Kosinski's Being There
Chapter 15 Twice Upon a Mattress: Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49
Chapter 16 Jack Gladney's Smoking Gun: Don DeLillo's White Noise
Chapter 17 Flare to White: Joel and Ethan Coen's Fargo and the Postmodern Turn
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 From Room to Room: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum"
Chapter 5 The Two Tarns: Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" and Chapter II of Henry David Thoreau's Walden
Chapter 6 The Reader Erect: Poe's "The Premature Burial"
Chapter 7 The First Hero of Relativism: Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware
Chapter 8 "Can't You See One Pace Before You?:" Franz Kafka's The Trial and Charles Baudelaire's Paris Spleen
Chapter 9 "You Better Have another Piece:" Ernest Hemingway's "Ten Indians" and William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
Chapter 10 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Alive: Hemingway's "The Killers"
Chapter 11 Interlude: ABC of Thinking
Chapter 12 Estragon's Ancient Wound: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
Chapter 13 "George and Martha: Sad, Sad, Sad:" Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Chapter 14 "Plants Were Like People:" Jerzy Kosinski's Being There
Chapter 15 Twice Upon a Mattress: Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49
Chapter 16 Jack Gladney's Smoking Gun: Don DeLillo's White Noise
Chapter 17 Flare to White: Joel and Ethan Coen's Fargo and the Postmodern Turn
Product details
| Published | Feb 28 2004 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 170 |
| ISBN | 9780761827573 |
| Imprint | University Press of America |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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