The Pleasures Of Reading In An Ideological Age by Robert Alter
An eloquent defense of attentive, aesthetic reading that warns against reducing texts to political or doctrinal slogans and argues for the moral and imaginative benefits of close attention; through readings of biblical narratives, novels, and poetry, it shows how nuance, ambiguity, and narrative detail open ethical understanding and human sympathy, insisting that literature’s pleasures and insights are best preserved by resisting ideological oversimplification.
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- 1996
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- American
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- English
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