The Dark Side of Literacy : : Literature and Learning Not to Read / / Benjamin Bennett.
Reading is good for us. The reading of literature, we are told, enlarges our horizons, extends our experience beyond our own lives. But the moral and political dangers that attend the association of reading with experience have long been understood. And is that association even valid? What if precis...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Theory
- 1. Reading and the Theory of Reading
- 2. Poems, Myths, and the Advent of Modern Reading
- Part II History
- 3. Dante and the Invention of the Novel Reader
- 4. Boccaccio, Cervantes, and the Path to Solitary Reading
- 5. Magic and History: The Roots and Branches of Dr. Faustus
- Part III Response
- 6. Intransitive Parody and the Trap of Reading: What Reading Really Is
- 7. Kleist, Kafka, and the Refutation of Reading
- The Parting of the Ways: A Concluding Note on the Novel and Literary Studies
- Notes
- Index