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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | Z1003.2 .S63 2011 | Off-site |
Details
- 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.
- Subjects
- 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