Last Samurai Reread

Lee Konstantinou combines a riveting reading of The Last Samurai with a behind-the-scenes look at Helen DeWitt's fraught experiences with corporate publishing. He shows how interpreting the ambition and richness of DeWitt's work in light of her struggles with literary institutions provides a potent social critique.

List of contents

Preface: The Last Samurai, Unread
1. A Little Potboiler
2. Helen DeWitt’s Aesthetic Education
3. Synergy Is Crap
4. Fuck The Chicago Manual of Style
5. The Best Book of the Forty-Fifth Century
Coda: Through a Hole in the Wall
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

About the author

Lee Konstantinou is associate professor of English at the University of Maryland. His books include the novel Pop Apocalypse (2009) and the literary history Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction (2016).

Summary

Lee Konstantinou combines a riveting reading of The Last Samurai with a behind-the-scenes look at Helen DeWitt’s fraught experiences with corporate publishing. He shows how interpreting the ambition and richness of DeWitt’s work in light of her struggles with literary institutions provides a potent social critique.

Product details

• Authors: Lee Konstantinou, Konstantinou Lee
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9780231185820
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18582-0
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Rereadings
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, Literary studies: general, Literary Criticism