The Dark Side of Literacy: Literature and Learning Not to Read

by Benjamin Bennett (Author), Benjamin Bennett (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $84.04

  Conducts a radical criticism of the concept of 'reading,' especially of the concept of 'the' reader, as these concepts are commonly used in literary criticism. This book sketches the historical provenance of 'the' reader, in an argument that includes discussions of Dante, Boccaccio, Cervantes, Marlowe, and German idealist philosophy.