Reading as therapy what contemporary fiction does for middle-class Americans / [electronic resource] :
Timothy Aubry.
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2011.
- viii, 258 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Searching for paradise on the Oprah Winfrey Show -- Therapy and displacement in divine secrets of the Ya-Ya sisterhood -- Infinite jest and the recovery of feeling -- The pain of reading A million little pieces -- The politics of interiority in The pilot's wife -- Reading The kite runner in America.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc. Reading--Psychological aspects. Bibliotherapy. Literature and society--United States. Books and reading--United States.