The Oprah affect
Subtitle: critical essays on Oprah's book club
By: edited by Cecilia Konchar Farr and Jaime Harker.
Contributors: Farr, Cecilia Konchar, 1958-; Harker, Jaime.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780791476154; 9780791476161
Subjects: Winfrey, Oprah -- Influence; Oprah Winfrey show; Book clubs (Discussion groups) -- United States; Books and reading -- United States; Literature and society -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Farr and Harker; title: Oprah in the public library / Juliette Wells and Virginia Wells; title: Talking readers (from Reading Oprah) / Cecilia Konchar Farr; title: Reading religiously : the ritual practices of Oprah's book club / Katherine Lofton; title: The romance of reading like Oprah / Yung-Hsing Wu; title: Oprah's book selections : teleliterature for the Oprah Winfrey Show / Mark Hall; title: Resisting Paradise : Toni Morrison, Oprah Winfrey, and the middlebrow audience / Michael A. Perry; title: Oprah's book club and the politics of cross-racial empathy (from International journal of cultural studies) / Kimberly Chabot Davis; title: Beware the furrow of the middlebrow : searching for Toni Morrison's Paradise on the Oprah Winfrey show (from Modern fiction studies) / Timothy Aubry; title: "Did Isabel Allende write this book for me?" : Oprah's book club reads Daughter of fortune / Anna Patricia Rodriquez; title: The trouble with happy endings : conflicting narratives in Oprah's book club / Kelley Lewis; title: Your book changed my life : everyday literary criticism and Oprah's book club / Kate Douglas; title: Correcting Oprah : Jonathan Franzen and the uses of literature in the therapeutic age / Kevin Quirk; title: The way we read now : Oprah Winfrey, intellectuals, and democracy / Simon Stow; title: Everything old is new again : Oprah's book club returns with the classics (from Reading with Oprah) / Kathleen Rooney; title: Afterward : Oprah, James Frey, and the problem of the literary / Jaime Harker.