Author: A. GrowollPublisher:
ISBN: 9780879685959
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
American Book Clubs
Author: A. GrowollPublisher:
ISBN: 9780879685959
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
American Book Clubs
Author: Adolf GrowollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book clubs
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
American Book Clubs
Author: Adolf GrowollPublisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
ISBN:
Category : Book clubs
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
American Book Clubs
Author: Adolph GrowollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book clubs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Reading with Oprah
Author: Kathleen RooneyPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1557288739
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Adored by its fans, deplored by its critics, Oprah's Book Club has been at the center of arguments about cultural authority and literary taste since it began in 1996. Reading with Oprah explores the club's revolutionary fusion of books, television, and commerce and tells the engaging and in-depth story of the OBC phenomenon. Kathleen Rooney combines extensive research with a dynamic voice to reveal the club's far-reaching cultural impact and its role as crucible for the clash between "high" and "low" literary taste. Comprehensive and up-to-date, the book covers the club from its inception in 1996, through the Jonathan Franzen contretemps, the surprising suspension in 2002, and, after the club's return in 2003, the progression from "great books" to memoir. New material includes an extensive look at the James Frey scandal and Oprah's turn to contemporary fiction, including The Road and Middlesex. Through close examination of Winfrey's picks and personal interviews with book club authors and readers, Rooney demonstrates how the club that Barbara Kingsolver calls "one of the best possible uses of a television set" has, according to Wally Lamb, "gotten people of all ages to read, to read more, and to read widely."
The Work of a Book Club
Author: Ruth Shepard GrannissPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book clubs
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
A Show of Books Issued by American Book Clubs Held at the Rowfant Club, April the Twenty-fourth, MDCCCXCVII.
Author: Rowfant Club (Cleveland, Ohio)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book clubs
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Reading Oprah
Author: Cecilia Konchar FarrPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791462584
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
An analysis of how Oprah's Book Club has changed America's reading habits.
Book Clubs
Author: Elizabeth LongPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226492612
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Book clubs are everywhere these days. And women talk about the clubs they belong to with surprising emotion. But why are the clubs so important to them? And what do the women discuss when they meet? To answer questions like these, Elizabeth Long spent years observing and participating in women's book clubs and interviewing members from different discussion groups. Far from being an isolated activity, she finds reading for club members to be an active and social pursuit, a crucial way for women to reflect creatively on the meaning of their lives and their place in the social order.
The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 2 Volumes
Author: Patrick O'DonnellPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119431719
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1607
Book Description
Fresh perspectives and eye-opening discussions of contemporary American fiction In The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020, a team of distinguished scholars delivers a focused and in-depth collection of essays on some of the most significant and influential authors and literary subjects of the last four decades. Cutting-edge entries from established and new voices discuss subjects as varied as multiculturalism, contemporary regionalisms, realism after poststructuralism, indigenous narratives, globalism, and big data in the context of American fiction from the last 40 years. The Encyclopedia provides an overview of American fiction at the turn of the millennium as well as a vision of what may come. It perfectly balances analysis, summary, and critique for an illuminating treatment of the subject matter. This collection also includes: An exciting mix of established and emerging contributors from around the world discussing central and cutting-edge topics in American fiction studies Focused, critical explorations of authors and subjects of critical importance to American fiction Topics that reflect the energies and tendencies of contemporary American fiction from the forty years between 1980 and 2020 The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020 is a must-have resource for undergraduate and graduate students of American literature, English, creative writing, and fiction studies. It will also earn a place in the libraries of scholars seeking an authoritative array of contributions on both established and newer authors of contemporary fiction.