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Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America
Paraliterary The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America
Author: Merve Emre
Literature departments are staffed by, and tend to be focused on turning out, ?good? readers?attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the vast majority of readers are, to use Merve Emre?s tongue-in-cheek term, ?bad? readers. They read fiction and poetry to be moved, distracted, instructed, ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226473970
ISBN-10: 022647397X
Publication Date: 11/16/2017
Pages: 304
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
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