Reading Through the Night - Tompkins, Jane
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Jane Tompkins, literature professor and award-winning author, thought she knew what reading was until, struck by a debilitating illness, she finds herself reading day and night because it is all she can do. A lover of books, she realizes that if you pay attention to your reactions as you read, literature can become a path of self-discovery.

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Jane Tompkins, literature professor and award-winning author, thought she knew what reading was until, struck by a debilitating illness, she finds herself reading day and night because it is all she can do. A lover of books, she realizes that if you pay attention to your reactions as you read, literature can become a path of self-discovery.
Autorenporträt
Jane Tompkins is a teacher and scholar known for her work on popular women's novels of the American nineteenth century. Her book on Western novels and films, West of Everything, won a prize from the American Popular Culture Association, and her memoir of teaching and learning, A Life in School, received an award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities. She has lectured and given workshops all over the United States and now lives in New York City, the Catskill Mountains, and South Florida.