On rereading
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
Summary
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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- Publication Date:2011
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011
The Physical Object
- Description:280 s. ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780674062221, 0674062221
- oclc:ocn795700692
- LC Classification:Z1003.2
- Dewey Decimal:028 .9
Table of Contents
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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