Why Do We Read?

Authors

  • Heide Palmer Freie Universität Berlin/Fachbereich Germanistik

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/157

Keywords:

Konsum, Literatur, Neuzeit, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

Lehnert’s work introduces and examines five female protagonists of different novels, all of them passionate readers. Lehnert investigates what reading means to these five women, what kinds of needs they fulfil by reading, and how reading influences their lives. Using the five readers’ different reading experiences as an example, Lehnert points to the various functions which reading can take on. Lehnert’s book, written in an essay-like style, attempts to offer an informative and entertaining contribution to the history of reading.

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Published

2002-11-01

Issue

No. 8 (2002): Literaturwissenschaften II

Section

Schwerpunkt

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Copyright (c) 2002 Heide Palmer

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