Site Reading : : Fiction, Art, Social Form / / David J. Alworth.
Site 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
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| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: The Site of the Social
- 1. Supermarket Sociology (Don Delillo, Andy Warhol)
- Test Sites
- 2. Dumps (William S. Burroughs, Mierle Laderman Ukeles)
- 3. Roads (Jack Kerouac, Joan Didion, John Chamberlain)
- 4. Ruins (Thomas Pynchon, Robert Smithson)
- 5. Asylums (Ralph Ellison, Gordon Parks, Jeff Wall)
- Afterword: Site Unseen
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index