How Not to Re-read Novels: The Critical Value of First Reading.
The temporal dimension of reading became, in the early twentieth century, a source of critical anxiety about the novel's status as high art. As a result, most critical approaches have since implicitly examined novels' forms from the perspective of a reader who has read the whole work. Reimagining cl...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 76 - 95 |
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