Reading as therapy
Subtitle: what contemporary fiction does for middle-class Americans
By: Timothy Aubry
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781587299551; 9781587299568
Subjects: Theory; Literature and society; History and criticism; Fiction; Books and reading; Bibliotherapy; Psychological aspects; Reading
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-254) and index.
Table of contents: title: Searching for paradise on the Oprah Winfrey Show; title: Therapy and displacement in Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya sisterhood; title: Infinite jest and the recovery of feeling; title: The pain of reading A million little pieces; title: The politics of interiority in The pilot's wife; title: Reading The kite runner in America.