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The dark side of literacy [electronic resource] : literature and learning not to read / Benjamin Bennett.

By: Bennett, Benjamin, 1939-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2008Edition: 1st ed.Description: ix, 347 p.Subject(s): European literature -- History and criticism | Literature, Modern -- History and criticism | Books and readingGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 809 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.