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I don't know of anything specifically on this topic, but your student might
find these sources useful:
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Thomas J. Roberts *An Aesthetics of Junk Fiction* Athens: U
of Georgia P, 1990.</li>
<li>
Victor Nell. *Lost in a book: The psychology of reading for pleasure.*
New Haven: Yale UP, 1988.</li>
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This is an interesting topic. I'd love to hear more about what your
student learns.
<p>Beth Young
<p>Tania Shepherd wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><font face="Bookman Old Style"><font color="#800000"><font size=+0>I
have a student who is looking at blurbs of detective novels from a genre
perspective and was wondering if anyone knows of papers/books
on the topic .</font></font></font></blockquote>
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<br>Dr. Beth Rapp Young
<br>University of Central Florida, Orlando
<br>Email: byoung@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
<br><A HREF="http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~byoung">http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~byoung</A>
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