On rereading

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After retiring from teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favourites, 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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Full title :On rereading / Patricia Meyer Spacks.

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Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

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Description:1 online resource (280 pages)

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ISBN:9780674063310, 0674063317
DOI:10.4159/harvard.9780674063310
oclc:ocn767736174
LC Classification:Z1003.2
Dewey Decimal:028/.9

Always a stranger? -- Once upon a time -- A civilized world -- Other times : the 1950s -- Other times : the 1960s -- Other times : the 1970s -- The pleasure principle -- Professional rereading -- Books I ought to like -- Guilty pleasures -- Reading together -- Coda : what I have learned.

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Books and reading Books and reading -- Psychological aspe… Books and reading -- United States Fiction -- Psychological aspects LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading Livres et lecture -- Aspect psychologiq… Roman -- Aspect psychologique Spacks, Patricia Meyer United States