Bennett, Benjamin, 1939-

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.
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European literature--History and criticism.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.
Books and reading.


Electronic books.

PN701 / .B46 2008eb

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