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The dark side of literacy : literature and learning not to read / Benjamin Bennett.
- 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:
- 1 online resource (358 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A radical critique of the concepts of 'reading' and 'the' reader as they are commonly used in literary criticism. The book sketches in broad terms the historical provenance of 'the' reader, in an argument that includes discussions of Dante Boccaccio, Cervantes, Marlowe and German idealist philosophy.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-4100-9
- 0-8232-4766-X
- OCLC:
- 801843079
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