Kevin R. West

Literary Depictions of Dangerous Reading

Textual Dangers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 501g
• ISBN-13: 9781498563710
• ISBN-10: 1498563716
• Artikelnr.: 56153976

Autorenporträt

Kevin R. West is professor at Stephen F. Austin State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Prologue: "Deadly Signs" Chapter One: Toward a Taxonomy of
Dangerous Texts; or, the Hazards of Classification Chapter Two: The Dangers
of Romantic Reading Chapter Three: Just Reading or Reading Into?
Possibilities of Overreading Chapter Four: The Bible as a Dangerous Text
(?) Conclusion: Reading and the Effect of Death Ironic Epilogue: On the
Dangers of Not Reading Bibliography