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On Rereading

Paperback • 2011 • English

On Rereading

By Patricia Meyer Spacks

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About the book

After retiring from a lifetime of teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favorites, fiction first encountered in young adulthood and never before revisited, books frequently reread, canonical works of literature she was supposed to have liked but didn't, guilty pleasures (books she oughtn't to have liked but did), and stories reread for fun vs. those read for the classroom. "On Rereading" records the sometimes surprisin...Show more

Literacy
Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Literary essays

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ISBN

9780674725898

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

On Rereading

Format

Paperback

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