Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America by Merve Emre

Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America

Merve Emre

304 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Literature departments are staffed by, and tend to be focused on turning out, “good” readers—attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the vast majority of readers are, to use Merve Emre’s ton...

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