The dark side of literacy literature and learning not to read / [electronic resource] :
Benjamin Bennett.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2008.
- ix, 347 p.
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.
European literature--History and criticism. Literature, Modern--History and criticism. Books and reading.