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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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: "Deadly signs"
- Toward a taxonomy of dangerous texts; or, the hazards of classification
- The dangers of romantic reading
- Just reading or reading into? Possibilities of overreading
- The Bible as a dangerous text (?)
- Conclusion: Reading and the effect of death
- Ironic epilogue: On the dangers of not reading.