Literary Depictions of Dangerous Reading - Textual Dangers (Hardcover)

Literary Representations of Dangerous Reading explores how selected American and European literary texts, from the classic to the contemporary, represent reading as a dangerous endeavor. It investigates how the texts being read or the conditions of reading may produce danger and considers the various qualities of the dangers depicted: literal or metaphorical, real or imagined, minor or mortal. Whereas readers can readily imagine being depressed or bored by a book, or even perhaps corrupted in some moral fashion, readers typically assume that the mere words on a page cannot directly affect their health. Nevertheless, literature can and does stage readings in which readers suffer actual harm from the magical or supernatural qualities of a given text. Such impossibly dangerous reading fascinates, the author argues, by exaggerating the dangers that may inhabit certain real experiences of reading.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2019
Authors:	Kevin R. West
Dimensions:	232 x 158 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	210
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-6371-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4985-6371-6
Barcode:	9781498563710

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