Reading as therapy : what contemporary fiction does for middle-class Americans /

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Why do Americans read contemporary fiction? This question seems simple, but is it? Do Americans read for the purpose of aesthetic appreciation? To satisfy their own insatiable intellectual curiosities? While other forms of media have come to monopolize consumers' leisure time, in the past two d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Aubry, Timothy Richard, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2011.
Temas:
Fiction > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Reading > Psychological aspects.
Bibliotherapy.
Literature and society > United States.
Books and reading > United States.
Roman > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Lecture > Psychologie.
Bibliothérapie.
Littérature et société > États-Unis.
bibliotherapy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.
Books and reading.
Literature and society.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Infinite jest and the recovery of feeling
  • The pain of reading A million little pieces
  • The politics of interiority in The pilot's wife
  • Reading The kite runner in America.

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