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Literary depictions of dangerous reading : textual dangers /

This book explores how American and European books represent reading as a dangerous act. It studies works that stage depictions of reading in such a way that readers suffer actual harm from the magical or supernatural qualities of a given text. Such dangerous reading fascinates by exaggerating the d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	West, Kevin R. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]
Subjects:	Literature > History and criticism. Reading. Risk-taking (Psychology) in literature. Literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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