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by Professor Molly Abel Travis PhD

Author: Professor Molly Abel Travis PhD
Subcategory: History & Criticism
Language: English
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press; 1st edition (January 30, 1998)
Pages: 184 pages
Category: Fiction and Literature
Rating: 4.1
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Molly Abel Travis unites reader theory with an analysis of historical conditions and various cultural contexts in this discussion of the reading and reception of twentieth-century literature in the United States. Travis moves beyond such provisional conclusions as "the text produces the reader" or "the reader produces the text" and considers the ways twentieth-century readers and texts attempt to constitute and appropriate each other at particular cultural moments and according to specific psychosocial exigencies.

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The book combines feminist and postmodern perspectives to illuminate new facets of Stein's novels and to situate them . It also assists in the historicizing of the postmodern literary emergence by insisting on the centrality of gender as a category of analysis

The book combines feminist and postmodern perspectives to illuminate new facets of Stein's novels and to situate them within an expanded definition of the postmodern. It also assists in the historicizing of the postmodern literary emergence by insisting on the centrality of gender as a category of analysis. Finally, it argues for the importance of constructing definitions of postmodernism that will allow space to consider the complexity and diversity of its cultural practices. Curved Thought and Textual Wandering will be welcomed by scholars of modernism, of Gertrude Stein, and of feminist and narrative theory and postmodern culture.

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Molly Abel Travis is an Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean of.Professor Travis received the 1999 Tulane Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Molly Abel Travis is an Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean of Newcomb-Tulane College. She is also a participating faculty member in the Gender and Sexuality Studies program, the Film Studies program, and the program in Digital Media Practice. Her first book was Reading Cultures: The Construction of Readers in the Twentieth Century. Her current projects include a book manuscript, "Imagining the New South Africa: Narratives of Nation in a Global Culture.

Molly Abel Travis unites reader theory with an analysis of historical conditions and various cultural contexts in this discussion of the reading and reception of twentieth-century literature in the United States.

Travis moves beyond such provisional conclusions as "the text produces the reader" or "the reader produces the text" and considers the ways twentieth-century readers and texts attempt to constitute and appropriate each other at particular cultural moments and according to specific psychosocial exigencies. She uses the overarching concept of the reader in and out of the text both to differentiate the reader implied by the text from the actual reader and to discuss such in-and-out movements that occur in the process of reading as the alternation between immersion and interactivity and between role playing and unmasking.

Unlike most reader theorists, Travis is concerned with the agency of the reader. Her conception of agency in reading is informed by performance, psychoanalytic, and feminist theories. This agency involves compulsive, reiterative performance in which readers attempt to find themselves by going outside the self—engaging in literary role playing in the hope of finally and fully identifying the self through self-differentiation. Furthermore, readers never escape a social context; they are both constructed and actively constructing in that they read as part of interpretive communities and are involved in collaborative creativity or what Kendall Walton calls "collective imagining."