Jane Tompkins (1)
Auteur van Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860
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West of Everything in Westerns (mei 2012)
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Normally this kind of a book would be like an excellent, strong cheese and a dark beer for a book nerd like me. Yet, I felt a distance to her writing from cover to cover. As it’s been some time since I read the book, and my notes about it have been scattered to the winds, I will write no more.
This was a very important book when it came out in the 1980s. It is now quite dated however and it is more obvious than ever how weakly reasoned much of it is. For critiques, see Brook Thomas's The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics and Paul Guillory's Cultural Capital.
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I did appreciate the author's self-reflection and her thoughts on chronic illness, since I have Lyme disease and could relate to the fatigue and limitations. I could also relate to envy and pride, a few themes in the book. There are some nuggets here, to be sure. Plus, I walked away with several book recommendations!… (meer)