Reading from the heart women, literature, and the search for true love
Passionate readers know who they are and since they always recognize one another, they will immediately identify Suzanne Juhasz as one of their own. Reading from the Heart is an engrossing exploration of the needs and desires that lead to a reading "habit." Part paean to the reading life,...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York
Viking
1994
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
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Geschichte 1900-2000
> Frau
> Geschichte
> American fiction
> Women authors
> English fiction
> Love
> Love stories
> Appreciation
> Love stories, American
> History and criticism
> Love stories, English
> Women and literature
> History
> Women
> Books and reading
> Psychology
> Englisch
> Roman
> Liebe
> USA
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Passionate readers know who they are and since they always recognize one another, they will immediately identify Suzanne Juhasz as one of their own. Reading from the Heart is an engrossing exploration of the needs and desires that lead to a reading "habit." Part paean to the reading life, part autobiography, it shows that reading and "real life" are not warring enterprises but interrelated experiences, each composed of need and fantasy, yearning and satisfaction As every reading woman knows, novels are not escapes from reality but spaces of the possible, where they can experiment with other ways of feeling and being Interweaving the story of her journey to self-discovery with her girlhood infatuation with Little Women, her adolescent immersion in Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and her adult experiences reading Gloria Naylor's Mama Day and Isabel Miller's famous lesbian novel Patience and Sarah, Juhasz convincingly demonstrates that the "romance" plot of finding, losing, and regaining true love is as much about identity as it is about love |
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| Beschreibung: | X, 292 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0670844012 0-670-84401-2 |