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The dark side of literacy : literature and learning not to read / Benjamin Bennett.
LIBRA PN701 .B46 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bennett, Benjamin, 1939-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European literature--History and criticism.
- European literature.
- Literature, Modern--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Books and reading.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 347 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Reading and the theory of reading
- Poems, myths, and the advent of modern reading
- Dante and the invention of the novel reader
- Boccaccio, Cervantes, and the path to solitary reading
- Magic and history : the roots and branches of Dr. Faustus
- Intransitive parody and the trap of reading : what reading really is
- Kleist, Kafka, and the refutation of reading
- The parting of the ways : a concluding note on the novel and literary studies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-338) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780823229161
- 0823229165
- OCLC:
- 227930872
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