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Philip Goldstein is fast establishing himself as the doyen of 'reception study,' a discipline that assumes that the reader's interpretive practices explain a text's import. In his latest work, Communities of Cultural Value, Goldstein delves again into the realm of literary criticism, painting an absorbing picture of the changing nature of a growing, more diversified readership and its challenge to professional literary study. Goldstein's PostMarxist approach investigates how interpretive communities govern the reader's practices, through lucid case studies that analyze the reception of texts and authors ranging from Jane Austen to John Le CarrZ. Communities of Cultural Values is an important addition to the continuing debate over art's aesthetic autonomy and the role of literary criticism in the 1990s, and it will be most valuable to readers seeking to chart the changing socio-historical condition of literary study.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: Reception Study in a Multicultural Era Chapter 2 Cultural Value and Poststructionalist Theory: The Case for a Leftwing Reception Study Chapter 3 Marxism and/as Humanism: The Reception of Hamlet Chapter 4 Feminism and Poststructionalist Criticism: The Reception of Pride and Prejudice Chapter 5 Conformity and Resistance in High Art: From Thomas Hardy to Toni Morrison Chapter 6 Gender, Spies, and Art: Ian Fleming, John Le Carre, Mickey Spillane, and Sara Paretsky Chapter 7 Orwell as a (Neo)conservative: The Reception of 1984 Chapter 8 Critical Realism or Black Modernism? The Reception of Their Eyes Were Watching God
