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VICTOR NELL
Publication date:
September 10 1988
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Yale University Press
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9780300236316
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9780300041156
Publication date:
September 10 1988
DOI:
10.2307/j.ctt1ww3vk3
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Book chapters
pp. i
Front Matter
pp. ix
List of Figures
pp. vii
Table of Contents
pp. xi
List of Tables
pp. xiii
Preface
pp. 1
Introduction:
pp. 15
Mass Reading:
pp. 26
Plague of the Spirit, Death of the Mind:
pp. 47
The Witchery of a Story
pp. 73
Absorption and Entrancement
pp. 84
Reading, Reading Ability, and Reading Habits
pp. 98
Reading as Eating
pp. 114
Matching Books to Readers
pp. 140
How Real Readers Choose Books:
pp. 167
Exciternent and Tranquility:
pp. 199
Reading, Dreaming, Trance
pp. 226
The Sovereignty of the Reading Experience
pp. 256
A Motivational Model of Ludic Reading
pp. 267
Epilogue
pp. 269
Appendix A
pp. 283
Appendix B
pp. 285
Appendix C
pp. 287
Appendix D
pp. 301
References
pp. 323
Index
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