High Resolution: Critical Theory and the Problem of Literacy - Hardcover

Sussman, Henry S.

 
9780195055030: High Resolution: Critical Theory and the Problem of Literacy
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0195055039 ISBN 13: 9780195055030
Publisher: OUP Oxford, 1989

Synopsis

At the heart of this important new book is the tension between literacy and the open acknowledgement of discrepancies within social and linguistic fields on the one hand, and what Sussman terms the resolving function, the utopian picture of harmony depicted by the state and large organizations, on the other. Combining literary theory with close textual readings of works by Hawthorne, Melville, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and Italo Calvino, this book is the first to explore the socio-political correlatives to literary studies - the mass media's ambivalence towards the linguistic apprehensions and skills that make them possible.

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From the Back Cover

'High Resolution' examines the predicament of literacy in mass culture from the perspective of contemporary critical theory. Sussman argues that there is tension between literacy and the open acknowledgment of discrepancies within social and linguistic fields on the one hand, and what he terms the resolving function, the utopian picture of harmony depicted by the state and large organizations, on the other.

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Publisher
OUP Oxford
Publication date
1989
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195055039
ISBN 13 
9780195055030
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
288