The dark side of literacy
Subtitle: literature and learning not to read
By: Benjamin Bennett.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780823229161
Subjects: European literature -- History and criticism; Literature, Modern -- History and criticism; Books and reading
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reading and the theory of reading; title: Poems, myths, and the advent of modern reading; title: Dante and the invention of the novel reader; title: Boccaccio, Cervantes, and the path to solitary reading; title: Magic and history : the roots and branches of Dr. Faustus; title: Intransitive parody and the trap of reading : what reading really is; title: Kleist, Kafka, and the refutation of reading; title: The parting of the ways : a concluding note on the novel and literary studies.