TY  - GEN
T1  - Play and the Politics of Reading : the Social Uses of Modernist Form.
A1  - Armstrong, Paul B.
LA  - English
PP  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1044962292
AB  - "Classrooms and curricula should be structured to foster the playful interaction that can teach students how to negotiate social and political differences in an emancipatory, noncoercive manner ... Teaching reading as a playful exercise of reciprocity with otherness can help prepare students for a democracy understood as a community of communities."--The "Pedagogical Postscript"Reading is socially useful, in Paul B. Armstrong's view, and can model democratic interaction by a community unconstrained by the need to build consensus but aware of the dangers of violence, irrationality, and anarchy. Reading requires mutual recognition but need not culminate in agreement, Armstrong says; instead, the social potential of reading arises from the active exchange of attitudes, ideas, and values between author and reader and among readers. Play and the Politics of Reading, which has important implications for education, draws on Wolfgang Iser's notion of free play to offer a valuable response to social problems. Armstrong finds that Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, Henry James, and James Joyce provide apt examples of the politics of reading, for reasons both literary and political. In making the transition from realism to modernism, these authors experimented with narrative strategies that seek simultaneously to represent the world and to question the means of representation itself. The formal ambiguities and complexities of such texts as Howards End and Ulysses are ways of staging for the reader the difficulties and opportunities of a world of differences. Innovative formal structures challenge readers to reconsider their assumptions and beliefs about social issues.
OP  - 224
CN  - PR888.M63A89 2005
SN  - 9781501720659
SN  - 1501720651
SN  - 9780801443251
KW  - Englisch, ...
KW  - English fiction : 20th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Literature and society : Great Britain : History : 20th century.
KW  - Books and reading : Great Britain : History : 20th century.
KW  - Literary form : History : 20th century.
KW  - Modernism (Literature) : Great Britain.
KW  - Genres littéraires : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Littérature et société : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Livres et lecture : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Modernisme (Littérature) : Grande-Bretagne.
KW  - Roman anglais : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Literary form
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Leser
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Moderne
KW  - Letterkunde.
KW  - Lezen.
KW  - Modernisme (cultuur).
KW  - Politieke aspecten.
KW  - Sociale aspecten.
KW  - Geschichte 1890-1940.
KW  - Englisch.
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
ER  -