Reading as therapy : what contemporary fiction does for middle-class Americans /

Why do Americans read contemporary fiction? This question seems simple, but is it? Do Americans read for the purpose of aesthetic appreciation? To satisfy their own insatiable intellectual curiosities? While other forms of media have come to monopolize consumers' leisure time, in the past two d...

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Main Author: Aubry, Timothy Richard, 1975-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2011
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