Title On rereading / Patricia Meyer Spacks.

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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.

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Description	1 online resource (280 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
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Subject	Spacks, Patricia Meyer -- Books and reading.
	Spacks, Patricia Ann Meyer -- Books and reading.
	Spacks, Patricia Meyer. (OCoLC)fst01861448
	Books and reading -- United States.
	Books and reading -- Psychological aspects.
	Fiction -- Psychological aspects.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
	Books and reading. (OCoLC)fst00836454
	Books and reading -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00836464
	Fiction -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00923742
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Spacks, Patricia Ann Meyer. On rereading. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011 9780674062221 (DLC) 2011023305 (OCoLC)709670324
ISBN	9780674063310 (electronic bk.)
	0674063317 (electronic bk.)

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