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Reading Relations: How Authors Enter Our Lives de Dan Dixon

Reading Relations: How Authors Enter Our Lives: New American Canon

Autor Dan Dixon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 dec 2026 – vârsta ani
Drawing on the ordinary language philosophy of Toril Moi and Stanley Cavell, Dan Dixon argues that the act of reading shares emotional ground with our social lives. It prompts us to attend to the kinds of affective attachments that frequently resist description, as well as the attachments that encourage debate among scholars of literature.
Dixon posits that the interpretation of a text is significantly shaped by our impression of the writer. Through the lens of persona, this book examines the work of influential and iconic post-1945 American essayists, such as Joan Didion, Maggie Nelson, James Baldwin, Janet Malcolm, Teju Cole, David Foster Wallace, and Ben Lerner. The attachments we form might facilitate insight, consolation, distrust, or vanity. But whatever their effects, they can’t be ignored.
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ISBN-13: 9781685971076
ISBN-10: 1685971075
Pagini: 258
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Iowa Press
Colecția University Of Iowa Press
Seria New American Canon

Recenzii

“Dixon makes an important methodological contribution to the field of literary studies. . . . A theoretically fortified but impractical mode of inquiry has caused critics and scholars to doubt any possibility of gaining intimacy with authors via their written works. If we put aside such methodological reservations and the impossible Olympian truth criteria upon which they rely, we can recognize that we do in fact get to know authors in an everyday sense, and that a belief in reading as a way of achieving friendship with the author can be a source of great satisfaction and insight.”—Timothy Aubry, author, Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures

“Dan Dixon’s book is a breath of fresh air: well written, lively, and consistently interesting. What would happen, Dixon asks, if we try to think of reading a literary text as entering into a conversation with a friend? Is it possible to think of reading as a kind of social relation? In his investigations, Dixon turns to American essays and autofiction. Drawing on Stanley Cavell’s philosophy, he brings out what it might mean to think of a text as a voice placing claims on us. Reading Relations is an important contribution to the ongoing reading debates in literary studies.”—Toril Moi, Duke University

Notă biografică

Dan Dixon is associate lecturer in English and writing at the University of Sydney. His work has appeared in Textual Practice, Critical Quarterly, The Guardian, and Australian Book Review, among others. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

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Drawing on the ordinary language philosophy of Toril Moi and Stanley Cavell, Dan Dixon argues that the interpretation of a text is significantly shaped by our impression of the writer. Through the lens of persona, Reading Relations examines the work of influential and iconic post-1945 American essayists, such as Joan Didion, Maggie Nelson, James Baldwin, Janet Malcolm, Teju Cole, David Foster Wallace, and Ben Lerner.