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On Rereading.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (294 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674063310
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: On RereadingDDC classification:
  • 028/.9
LOC classification:
  • Z1003
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- 1. Always a Stranger? -- 2. Once Upon a Time -- 3. A Civilized World -- 4. Other Times: The 1950s -- 5. Other Times: The 1960s -- 6. Other Times: The 1970s -- 7. The Pleasure Principle -- 8. Professional Rereading -- 9. Books I Ought to Like -- 10. Guilty Pleasures -- 11. Reading Together -- Coda: What I Have Learned -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: After retiring from teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favorites, young adult fiction, canonical works she didn't like, guilty pleasures. On Rereading records the surprising, fascinating results of her personal experiment and raises a number of intriguing questions.
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Intro -- Contents -- 1. Always a Stranger? -- 2. Once Upon a Time -- 3. A Civilized World -- 4. Other Times: The 1950s -- 5. Other Times: The 1960s -- 6. Other Times: The 1970s -- 7. The Pleasure Principle -- 8. Professional Rereading -- 9. Books I Ought to Like -- 10. Guilty Pleasures -- 11. Reading Together -- Coda: What I Have Learned -- Acknowledgments.

After retiring from teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favorites, young adult fiction, canonical works she didn't like, guilty pleasures. On Rereading records the surprising, fascinating results of her personal experiment and raises a number of intriguing questions.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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