BOOK

Reading Jane Austen

Davidson, Jenny, author

2017

Overview

\"The topic of how we respond to books we love, as well as how that affects the critical discourse about them, has become a legitimate object of study in its own right, with Austen as a central example; though Shakespeare might be the most closely comparable instance in the English literary tradition, certain other authors undoubtedly continue to elicit curiously strong allegiances from unusually large numbers of readers (the three quite different names of J. R. R. Tolkien, Ayn Rand and Toni Morrison come immediately to mind). I strongly believe that rather than canceling each other out, a productive tension exists between the different modes involved in loving books and in reading them to understand how they work, what they mean and why they matter, not least because both orientations depend heavily on the practice of repeated rereading, even or perhaps especially in the case of books we already know very well\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 Criticism and interpretation. / Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 Appreciation. / Books and reading.
• ISBN: 9781108421348

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR4037.D36 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE