The Dark Side of Literacy: Literature and Learning Not to Read

by Benjamin Bennett

Reading is good for us. The reading of literature, we are told, enlarges our horizons, extends our experience beyond our own lives. But the moral and political dangers that attend the association of reading with experience have long been understood. And is that association even valid? What if precisely our most important literary texts are constructed so as to challenge or disrupt it?

This book is a radical criticism of the concept of "reading,"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823229165
• ISBN13: 9780823229161
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 8.8"