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Reading as therapy : what contemporary fiction does for middle-class Americans /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aubry, Timothy Richard, 1975-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Books and reading > United States.
Literature and society > United States.
Bibliotherapy.
Reading > Psychological aspects.
Fiction > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Searching for paradise on the Oprah Winfrey Show
  • Therapy and displacement in Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya sisterhood
  • Infinite jest and the recovery of feeling
  • The pain of reading A million little pieces
  • The politics of interiority in The pilot's wife
  • Reading The kite runner in America.