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- catalog abstract ""Our Preposterous Use of Literature is a critique of summary uses of literature and encapsulating methods of reading, methods that in effect limit or destroy the texts they purport to interpret. Using the historical reception of the works of Emerson as a case study, T.S. McMillin conducts a bold inquiry into the political and philosophical nature of reading. He examines the ways in which Emerson's texts have been read in the United States, the myriad methods by which those texts have been pillaged, picked over, and repackaged - in a word, consumed - by biographers, political apologists, self-help proponents, entrepreneurs, and academicians alike." "McMillin shows how a reductive, consumptive method of reading alters both the process of the textual encounter and the nature of the text itself. Our Preposterous Use of Literature proposes a new natural philosophy of reading: a method of reading at once more responsible to the texts we interpret and more closely connected to the worlds in which our interpretations take place."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11635856.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""McMillin shows how a reductive, consumptive method of reading alters both the process of the textual encounter and the nature of the text itself. Our Preposterous Use of Literature proposes a new natural philosophy of reading: a method of reading at once more responsible to the texts we interpret and more closely connected to the worlds in which our interpretations take place."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Our Preposterous Use of Literature is a critique of summary uses of literature and encapsulating methods of reading, methods that in effect limit or destroy the texts they purport to interpret. Using the historical reception of the works of Emerson as a case study, T.S. McMillin conducts a bold inquiry into the political and philosophical nature of reading. He examines the ways in which Emerson's texts have been read in the United States, the myriad methods by which those texts have been pillaged, picked over, and repackaged - in a word, consumed - by biographers, political apologists, self-help proponents, entrepreneurs, and academicians alike."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-179) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: What's the Use of Literature? -- 1. The Consumption of Emerson -- 2. Writing in the Name of Emerson -- 3. Waldo, Inc. -- 4. Foolish Consistencies -- 5. American Scholars and the Objects of Criticism -- 6. Toward a Natural Philosophy of Reading.".
- catalog extent "xii, 183 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0252025385 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "814/.3 21".
- catalog subject "Books and reading.".
- catalog subject "Criticism United States History.".
- catalog subject "Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Criticism and interpretation History.".
- catalog subject "Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Knowledge Literature.".
- catalog subject "Literature History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "PS1638 .M38 2000".
- catalog subject "Reader-response criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: What's the Use of Literature? -- 1. The Consumption of Emerson -- 2. Writing in the Name of Emerson -- 3. Waldo, Inc. -- 4. Foolish Consistencies -- 5. American Scholars and the Objects of Criticism -- 6. Toward a Natural Philosophy of Reading.".
- catalog title "Our preposterous use of literature : Emerson and the nature of reading / T.S. McMillin.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".