The Shaping of a Canon: U.S. Fiction, 1960-1975

Ohmann, Richard

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“…306 t the same time that literary theorists assert the sociopolitical A nature of generic boundaries or the literary canon, and question the evaluative authority of 'literary professionals' (Fish, 1980;Ohmann, 1983;Smith, 1983;Tompkins, 1985), thousands of women and men in local book clubs across America use their readership to mark a boundary between themselves and their neighbors, and the elite among such reading groups proudly distinguish themselves from groups who 'only read trash'. Similarly, while cultural theorists doubt the very possibility of literary representation, and trace the emergence of a decentered, fragmented postmodern self (Jameson, 1984;Lyotard, 1984;Derrida, 1976), reading group members assume novels fail unless they realistically represent the world, and respond to the characters in the text almost as if they were real people.…”

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Reading groups and the postmodern crisis of cultural authority

Long

1987

Cultural Studies

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Reading groups and the postmodern crisis of cultural authority

Long

1987

Cultural Studies

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“…Partimos de la necesidad de descentralizar el concepto de canon y en cualquier caso hablar de canon en plural, puesto que nuevos agentes distinguen y valoran obras y autores: a los tradicionales premios, críticos, academias, educación… se suman ahora también blogs, slams o booktubers (Achugar, 2019). Seguimos las reflexiones de Francés (2021) a propósito de la configuración del canon que plantean Ohmann (1983), y especialmente Fishelov (2010), para integrar los blogs como agentes de recomendación lectora, generadores de ecos y diálogos alrededor de las obras literarias.…”

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Esteve-Guillen

2022

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La blogosfera literaria se ha transformado en los últimos años. El período de mayor efervescencia durante la primera década del milenio ha dado paso a una migración hacia otras plataformas y redes sociales. Este artículo analiza las investigaciones publicadas entre 2000-2020 en revistas internacionales indexadas en Scopus WoS, y ERIC, así como en otras como Google Scholar y LISA sobre el blog literario y su función como prescriptor de lecturas. Nuestro objetivo es analizarlo como agente que participa en la constitución del canon literario. La revisión bibliográfica permite observar los temas que han despertado el interés de la crítica internacional sobre los blogs literarios: perfil de blogueros y lectores, caracterización discursiva de las reseñas de blogs, debate sobre la convivencia o competencia entre la crítica literaria amateur y la profesional y relación entre los blogs y la compra de libros.

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“…This is not in itself a new idea (see eg. Ohmann, 1983 andBell, 2000), although it is one that has been marginalized by the mainstream of literary study.…”

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‘It actually painted a picture of the village and the sea and the bottom of the sea’: Reading groups, cultural legitimacy, and description in narrative (with particular reference to John Steinbeck’s The Pearl)

Allington

2011

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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This article proposes a form of research that integrates reader study with textual analysis. Its purpose is to investigate the social production of literary value, potentially providing cultural sociology with a systematic means by which to study the formal features of texts in relation to their social significance: a means arguably required by (but not necessarily supplied in) the work of Pierre Bourdieu. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of reading group (or ‘book club’) discussions reveals an association between descriptive writing, cultural legitimacy, and a focus on the form, rather than the content, of fictional texts. In order to understand this association, the analysis then turns to two paragraphs from John Steinbeck’s The Pearl (2000 [1946]), which had been read by most of the groups involved and which many group members had referred to as involving ‘description’. It is argued that a long-standing tradition of association between descriptive writing and visual art has served as a resource both for consumers and for producers in distinguishing literature from popular fiction.

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The Shaping of a Canon: U.S. Fiction, 1960-1975

Cited by 57 publications

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Reading groups and the postmodern crisis of cultural authority

Reading groups and the postmodern crisis of cultural authority

Blogs y lectura

‘It actually painted a picture of the village and the sea and the bottom of the sea’: Reading groups, cultural legitimacy, and description in narrative (with particular reference to John Steinbeck’s The Pearl)

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