Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form
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Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form
By (Author) Professor David J. Alworth
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
25th January 2016
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
810.90054
Physical Properties
Hardback
224
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
397g
Description
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 understanding of setting as a static background
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Winner of the 2016 Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction, Media Ecology Association
Author Bio
David J. Alworth is assistant professor of English and of History and Literature at Harvard University.
