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Reading as therapy

Aubry, Timothy Richard, 1975-

Reading as therapy what contemporary fiction does for middle-class Americans / [electronic resource] : Timothy Aubry. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (viii, 258 p. ) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-254) and index.

Searching for paradise on the Oprah Winfrey Show -- Therapy and displacement in Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya sisterhood -- Infinite jest and the recovery of feeling -- The pain of reading A million little pieces -- The politics of interiority in The pilot's wife -- Reading The kite runner in America.

9781587299568 1587299569




Books and reading--United States.
Literature and society--United States.
Bibliotherapy.
Reading--Psychological aspects.
Fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.


Electronic books.

PN3352.P7 / A84 2011

306.4/88