On rereading [electronic resource] / Patricia Meyer Spacks.
2011
Z1003.2 .S63 2011eb
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Title
On rereading [electronic resource] / Patricia Meyer Spacks.
Author
Spacks, Patricia Meyer.
ISBN
9780674063310 electronic book
9780674062221
9780674062221
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (280 p.)
Call Number
Z1003.2 .S63 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
028/.9
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of 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.
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.