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Chapter 2. Taming the Reader

© 2016 University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

© 2016 University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Preface ix
  4. Chapter 1. An Apprenticeship in Reading 1
  5. Chapter 2. Taming the Reader 17
  6. Chapter 3. Intelligence and Its Neighbors 34
  7. Chapter 4. Literature as Risk 53
  8. Chapter 5. A Poetics of Misencounters 73
  9. Chapter 6. Is There Style Without Gender? 88
  10. Chapter 7. The Lucidity of Inaction 104
  11. Chapter 8. Closing the Book—Dogspeech 118
  12. Chapter 9. Overstaying My Welcome: Conclusions 132
  13. Bibliography 135
  14. Index 143
  15. Backmatter 146
Theoretical Fables
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https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512800906-003

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Preface ix
  4. Chapter 1. An Apprenticeship in Reading 1
  5. Chapter 2. Taming the Reader 17
  6. Chapter 3. Intelligence and Its Neighbors 34
  7. Chapter 4. Literature as Risk 53
  8. Chapter 5. A Poetics of Misencounters 73
  9. Chapter 6. Is There Style Without Gender? 88
  10. Chapter 7. The Lucidity of Inaction 104
  11. Chapter 8. Closing the Book—Dogspeech 118
  12. Chapter 9. Overstaying My Welcome: Conclusions 132
  13. Bibliography 135
  14. Index 143
  15. Backmatter 146
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