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Author Spacks, Patricia Meyer.

Title On rereading / Patricia Meyer Spacks.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (280 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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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.
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Subject Spacks, Patricia Meyer -- Books and reading.
Spacks, Patricia Meyer.
Books and reading.
Spacks, Patricia Ann Meyer -- Books and reading.
Books and reading -- United States.
United States.
Books and reading -- Psychological aspects.
Books and reading -- Psychological aspects.
Fiction -- Psychological aspects.
Fiction -- Psychological aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
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)
0674063317 (electronic book)
9780674062221 (alkaline paper)
0674062221 (alkaline paper)