ISBN:
9781587299568
,
1587299569
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (viii, 258 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Aubry, Timothy Richard, 1975- Reading as therapy
DDC:
306.488
Keywords:
Fiction History and criticism
;
Theory, etc
;
Reading Psychological aspects
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Literature and society United States
;
Books and reading United States
;
Bibliotherapy
;
Reading Psychological aspects
;
Fiction History and criticism
;
Theory, etc
;
Literature and society
;
Books and reading
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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LITERARY CRITICISM ; Books & Reading
;
Bibliotherapy
;
Books and reading
;
Literature and society
;
Reading ; Psychological aspects
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
United States
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Searching for paradise on the Oprah Winfrey Show -- Therapy and displacement in Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya sisterhood -- 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.
Abstract:
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 decades book clubs have proliferated, Amazon has sponsored thriving online discussions, Oprah Winfrey has inspired millions of viewers to read both contemporary works and classics, and novels have retained their devoted following within middlebrow communities
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
