The Dark Side of Literacy : Literature and Learning Not to Read / Benjamin Bennett.
Bennett, Benjamin, author.
2022
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Title The Dark Side of Literacy : Literature and Learning Not to Read / Benjamin Bennett.
Author Bennett, Benjamin, author.
ISBN 9780823292820
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823292820
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2009
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (300 p.)
Item Number 10.1515/9780823292820 doi
Summary Reading is good for us. The reading of literature, we are told, enlarges our horizons, extends our experience beyond our own lives. But the moral and political dangers that attend the association of reading with experience have long been understood. And is that association even valid? What if precisely our most important literary texts are constructed so as to challenge or disrupt it? This book is a radical criticism of the concept of "reading," especially of the concept of "the" reader, as commonly used in literary criticism. Bennett starts with the point that "reading" does not name a single, identifiable type of experience or class of experiences. Her then sketches in broad terms the historical provenance of "the" reader, in an argument that includes discussions of Dante, Boccaccio, Cervantes, Marlowe, and German idealist philosophy. In two concluding chapters on modern German novellas, he suggests that most major European literary works since the eighteenth century are written in direct opposition to the central concepts by which criticism has sought to lay hold of them.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Theory
1. Reading and the Theory of Reading
2. Poems, Myths, and the Advent of Modern Reading
Part II History
3. Dante and the Invention of the Novel Reader
4. Boccaccio, Cervantes, and the Path to Solitary Reading
5. Magic and History: The Roots and Branches of Dr. Faustus
Part III Response
6. Intransitive Parody and the Trap of Reading: What Reading Really Is
7. Kleist, Kafka, and the Refutation of Reading
The Parting of the Ways: A Concluding Note on the Novel and Literary Studies
Notes
Index

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