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New. 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 tongue-in-cheek term, "bad" readers. They read fiction and poetry to be moved, distracted, instructed, improved, engaged as citizens. How should we think about those readers, and what should we make of the structures, well outside the academy, that generate them? We should, Emre argues, think of such readers not as non-literary but as paraliterary thriving outside the institutions we take as central to the literary world. She traces this phenomenon to the postwar period, when literature played a key role in the rise of American power. At the same time as American universities were producing good readers by the hundreds, many more thousands of bad readers were learning elsewhere to be disciplined public communicators,…
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Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America Hardcover - 2017
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- Title Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America
- Author Merve Emre
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date 2017
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780226473833 / 022647383X
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Intellectual life - 20th, Literature and society - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017016749
- Dewey Decimal Code 028.909
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