... for its English-speaking readership. Publication of works of questionable scholarship by a major university press, and the positive reception given to them, suggests some resonance with the antidemocratic and so-called postsecular turns in the United States and Europe. King Kong in America...

... and international readerships. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Orhan Pamuk Turkey postmodernism readership national allegory b2 Interview An Interview with Orhan Pamuk Bruce Robbins...

... literature, a writer no longer cultivates any subjective readerships by writing a text to be read, so much as the writer cultivates a collective “thinkershipan audience that no longer even has to read the text itself in order to appreciate the importance of its innovation. The text no longer begs...

... and Political Theology. Chi- cago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Middleton, Peter. Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry. Modern and Contemporary Poetics. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005...

... 10.1215/01903659-4295527 © 2018 by Duke University Press 136 boundary 2 / February 2018 may have generated a handful of significant writers or movements and may enjoy strong domestic institutional supports and even large readerships, but their general impact on the history of modern literature...

... as editors, the explanation given was that the journal had been losing readership under their editorial policies, becoming more obscure and politically one-sided— an interesting reason in a bureaucratic Party-state that will not allow for serious dissent. The politics of the affair is still obscure...

... the velvet rope of global literary eminence. More spe- cifically, Sebald s meteoric rise shines a light on the hegemonic role the anglophone literary market plays in the processes that authors and their texts undergo when they migrate from a national literary market to a plane- tary readership. Indeed...

... of “a poem has never been meant for its readers.” In this new emerging context, something like this could be seen as happening in Conceptualism (cf. Kenny Goldsmith's claim of “not having a readership”) but also as an extension of large parts of Charles Bernstein's practice, where the imperative...

... as a critic who has a university post, so I move out from that base, as it were, to write for a somewhat more general readership. It’s a nonspecialized but still extremely sophisticated readership—I don’t think we should ever kid ourselves that writing for the TLS or LRB is writing for some fictional...

..., Count Dracula. Yet mere sensationalism is effective in engaging and maintaining a certain readership that becomes addicted to sensation. Charles Dickens describes the effects of such reading on the untutored imagination: ‘‘I used, when I was at school, to take in The Terrific 3. Travels...

... understanding of American irony, but he clearly does harbor hopes for a readership attuned to it, and thus for the novel as such. What the novel still does better than any other form, he suggests, if only for fewer and fewer readers, is the empathetic experience that irony defines and enables: reading...

... writing that is meant for a carefully selected readership. Critics and poets ‘‘formed, by the very nature of their position, an elite body of educated men, capable of talking intelligently to each other on scholarly and literary subjects. It was 14. Adele Rickett, ‘‘The Personality of the Chinese...

... constitutive of world literature are historically variable, coalescing in different canons and margins over time, but also that world literature involves diverse practices, including translation, adaptation, and editing, as well as diverse readerships, elite and popular, professional and pleasure...

.... Pre- cisely because it is public discourse in the modern sense, addressing an y 2 / 30:3 / sheet 102 of 252 increasingly broad and unpredictable readership, alarmism has no option but to check itself as it goes; it is intrinsically self...

... conditioned inability to grasp its structuring position in the world it dominates. That Bolaño’s work does not in particular solicit an American readership only adds to the urgency of its oblique address to us. • • • • The outlines of Bolaño’s aesthetics of ramification, in which the nar...

... of this? This phrase invites many glosses. The speaker, we well know by this time, is African American, and the book’s normative readership is not exclusively defined by race, so it makes sense that there is only a par- tial fit. Moreover, at least since the subtitle of Uncle Tom’s...

... George Weidenfeld commissioned Hobsbawm to write something for a multivolume history of civilization, which eventually became his sec- ond monograph, The Age of Revolution. David Higham became his literary agent, confirming Hobsbawm on his course as a writer for a wide readership. His first...

.... Slick, attractive, reader-friendly, they responded rapidly to every change in the national mood. Indeed, they called a national readership into being. The only thing wrong with them was their content. Like most—though not all—Web sites, most of these magazines deteriorated with time, since...

... philoso- phers make use of, stresses the agreement and consensus of its implied readership over the linguistic or psychoanalytic models that literary crit- ics tend to use. Such consensus, I will suggest in the second section, is actually fundamental to the tradition of moral intuition...

... and anthropologists as his “other.” In light of his direct, sustained concern with the indigenous, it is hard to imagine him writing for anything other than an anthropological readership, if not as an anthropologist as well. In actuality, does it matter at all? Clifford’s “new history” shows that it is pos...