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Jane Tompkins is an American literary scholar who explores canon formation, feminist literary criticism, and reader response theory. She has been instrumental in developing the concept of cultural work within literary studies. Her research delves into how literature functions and is interpreted within cultural contexts.

2020
Reading Through the Night
248 pages
9 hours of reading
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Jane Tompkins, a literature professor and author, thought she knew what reading was until, struck by a debilitating illness, she finds herself reading day and night because it is all she can do. A lifelong lover of books, she realizes that if you pay close attention to your reactions as you read, literature can become a path of self-discovery.

Reading Through the Night