Around Quitting Time – Work and Middle–Class Fantasy in American Fiction: New Americanists
Autor Robert Seguinen Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 iun 2001
Tracing connections between the reconstruction of the labor process and the aesthetic dilemmas of modernism, between the emergence of the modern state and the structure of narrative, Seguin analyzes the work of Nathanael West, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, John Barth, and others. These fictional narratives serve to demonstrate for Seguin the pattern of social sites and cultural phenomenon that have emerged where work and leisure, production and consumption, and activity and passivity coincide. He reveals how, by creating pathways between these seemingly opposed domains, the middle-class imaginary at once captures and suspends the dynamics of social class and opens out onto a political and cultural terrain where class is both omnipresent and invisible. "
Aroung Quitting Time" will interest critics and historians of modern U.S. culture, literary scholars, and those who explore the interaction between economic and cultural forms.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780822326700
ISBN-10: 0822326701
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria New Americanists
ISBN-10: 0822326701
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria New Americanists
Recenzii
"Rob Seguin's Around Quitting Time makes a major contribution to discussions of class formation in the United States. His original readings of novels by Dreiser, Cather, West, and Barth brilliantly pursue the ghostly tracks of social and cultural change as they are rendered in fine narrative and linguistic detail within the domain of the literary. His mode of reading is as significant as his argument about the "classlessness" of the middle class. Indeed, Seguin demonstrates in exemplary fashion that it is possible to attend to literature as a social and political force without neglecting the specificity of its aesthetic work."- Jan Radway, Duke University "A remarkably positive achievement that contributes significantly to an understanding of quite a range of texts, to an understanding of specific currents of literary modernism, and most generally to an understanding of class, which-in a U.S. context especially-remains that most vexed of social categories."- Evan Watkins, Pennsylvania State University
"Rob Seguin's Around Quitting Time makes a major contribution to discussions of class formation in the United States. His original readings of novels by Dreiser, Cather, West, and Barth brilliantly pursue the ghostly tracks of social and cultural change as they are rendered in fine narrative and linguistic detail within the domain of the literary. His mode of reading is as significant as his argument about the "classlessness" of the middle class. Indeed, Seguin demonstrates in exemplary fashion that it is possible to attend to literature as a social and political force without neglecting the specificity of its aesthetic work."- Jan Radway, Duke University "A remarkably positive achievement that contributes significantly to an understanding of quite a range of texts, to an understanding of specific currents of literary modernism, and most generally to an understanding of class, which-in a U.S. context especially-remains that most vexed of social categories."- Evan Watkins, Pennsylvania State University
"Rob Seguin's Around Quitting Time makes a major contribution to discussions of class formation in the United States. His original readings of novels by Dreiser, Cather, West, and Barth brilliantly pursue the ghostly tracks of social and cultural change as they are rendered in fine narrative and linguistic detail within the domain of the literary. His mode of reading is as significant as his argument about the "classlessness" of the middle class. Indeed, Seguin demonstrates in exemplary fashion that it is possible to attend to literature as a social and political force without neglecting the specificity of its aesthetic work."- Jan Radway, Duke University "A remarkably positive achievement that contributes significantly to an understanding of quite a range of texts, to an understanding of specific currents of literary modernism, and most generally to an understanding of class, which-in a U.S. context especially-remains that most vexed of social categories."- Evan Watkins, Pennsylvania State University
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"A remarkably positive achievement that contributes significantly to an understanding of quite a range of texts, to an understanding of specific currents of literary modernism, and most generally to an understanding of class, which--in a U.S. context especially--remains that most vexed of social categories."--Evan Watkins, Pennsylvania State University
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Class, Middle Class, and the Modalities of Labor
2. The Burden of Toil: Sister Carrie as Urban Pastoral
3. Willa Cather and the Ambivalence of Hierarchy
4. New Frontiers in Hollywood: Mobility and Desire in The Day of the Locust
5. Into the 1950s: Fiction in a Age of Consensus
Postscript: The Insistence of Class and the Framing of Culture in the American Scene
Notes
Bibliography
Index
1. Introduction: Class, Middle Class, and the Modalities of Labor
2. The Burden of Toil: Sister Carrie as Urban Pastoral
3. Willa Cather and the Ambivalence of Hierarchy
4. New Frontiers in Hollywood: Mobility and Desire in The Day of the Locust
5. Into the 1950s: Fiction in a Age of Consensus
Postscript: The Insistence of Class and the Framing of Culture in the American Scene
Notes
Bibliography
Index