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 dangers that inhabit real experiences of reading.
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 dangers that inhabit real experiences of reading.
Acknowledgments Prologue: "Deadly Signs" Chapter One: Toward a Taxonomy of Dangerous Texts; or, the Hazards of Classification Chapter Two: The Dangers of Romantic Reading Chapter Three: Just Reading or Reading Into? Possibilities of Overreading Chapter Four: The Bible as a Dangerous Text (?) Conclusion: Reading and the Effect of Death Ironic Epilogue: On the Dangers of Not Reading Bibliography
Acknowledgments Prologue: "Deadly Signs" Chapter One: Toward a Taxonomy of Dangerous Texts; or, the Hazards of Classification Chapter Two: The Dangers of Romantic Reading Chapter Three: Just Reading or Reading Into? Possibilities of Overreading Chapter Four: The Bible as a Dangerous Text (?) Conclusion: Reading and the Effect of Death Ironic Epilogue: On the Dangers of Not Reading Bibliography
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