Our Preposterous Use of Literature: Emerson and the nature of reading. hardcover xii, 186 p.
内容
Presents a critique of summary uses of literature and encapsulatingmethods of reading, methods that in effect limit or destroy the texts theypurport to interpret. This book examines the ways in which Emerson's textshave been read in the United States, and the myriad methods by which thosetexts have been pillaged.