Response: "The Risks of Reading"

Phillip H. Round

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Response: "The Risks of Reading"

Phillip H. Round

The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol.38(1), pp.111-115

04/01/2005

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Abstract

It is not so much that reading is at risk as that belles lettres are at risk. On the cover of the NEA's report, a lone boy in the right foreground reads a thick tome in a paneled and columned library reading room. The herringbone patterned wood floors and the plush draperies in the far background elevate his solitary act of reading literature into a belletristic sacrament.

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Title: Subtitle: Response: "The Risks of Reading"
Creators: Phillip H. Round
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol.38(1), pp.111-115
ISSN: 0742-5562
eISSN: 2162-6294
Publisher: Midwest Modern Language Association
Language: English
Date published: 04/01/2005
Academic Unit: English
Record Identifier: 9984398052302771

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