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Readers' liberation / Jonathan Rose.
LIBRA Z1003 .R738 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rose, Jonathan, 1952-
- Series:
- Literary agenda
- The literary agenda
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature.
- Books and reading.
- Literacy.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 227 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Reader's Liberation addresses question of what we should be reading to obtain information, examining how past readers encountered the same problems that today's readers face, and how they dealt with them.
- Contents:
- 1 Wrestling with the Author 1
- 2 Student Power 40
- 3 Up from Middlebrow 60
- 4 Dreamers of the Ghetto 87
- 5 Shakespeare in Prison 112
- 6 On Not Believing What You Read 129
- 7 Fayned News 160
- 8 Death to Gradgrind 183.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-211) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198723555
- 9780198723554
- OCLC:
- 989711128
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