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On rereading / Patricia Meyer Spacks.

Title
On rereading / Patricia Meyer Spacks.
Author
Spacks, Patricia Meyer.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.

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Description
280 p.; 22 cm.
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.
Subject
  • Spacks, Patricia Meyer > Books and reading
  • Books and reading > United States
  • Books and reading > Psychological aspects
  • Fiction > Psychological aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
9780674062221 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2011023305
OCLC
  • 709670324
  • SCSB-11555106
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library