{"product_id":"love-and-reading-gerald-j-butler-9780820407630","title":"Love and Reading: An Essay in Applied Psychoanalysis","description":"\u003ci\u003eLove and Reading\u003c\/i\u003e discusses 18th and 19th Century English fiction, the aesthetics of Burke and Kant, and contemporary literary theory. It stresses that language should be referential and argues for a way of reading that would not provide narcissistic gratification: a way of reading that would enable us instead to see through  the huge and terrible deception,   as Tolstoy put it, that hides  both life and death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gerald J. Butler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820407631\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820407630\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/1988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Gerald J. Butler","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49082574242047,"sku":"9780820407630","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/love-and-reading-gerald-j-butler-9780820407630","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}