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1 online resource (280 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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. |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Spacks, Patricia Meyer -- Books and reading.
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Spacks, Patricia Meyer. |
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Books and reading. |
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Spacks, Patricia Ann Meyer -- Books and reading. |
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Books and reading -- United States.
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United States. |
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Books and reading -- Psychological aspects.
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Books and reading -- Psychological aspects. |
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Fiction -- Psychological aspects.
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Fiction -- Psychological aspects. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Spacks, Patricia Ann Meyer. On rereading. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011 9780674062221 (DLC) 2011023305 (OCoLC)709670324 |
ISBN |
9780674063310 (electronic book) |
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0674063317 (electronic book) |
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9780674062221 (alkaline paper) |
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0674062221 (alkaline paper) |
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