Literary depictions of dangerous reading: textual dangers
Auteur :
West, Kevin R.
Éditeur :
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN :
9781498563710
Date de publication :
15 avr. 2019
Dimensions :
23,2 x 15,8 x 2,2 cm
Poids :
503 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
This book explores how American and European books represent reading as a dangerous act. It studies works that stage depictions of reading in such a way that readers suffer actual harm from the magical or supernatural qualities of a given text. Such dangerous reading fascinates by exaggerating the dangers that inhabit real experiences of reading.