Results from the literature segment of the 2002 survey of public participation in the arts
Includes bibliographical references and index
Preface -- 10 key findings -- Introduction -- Literature participation in 2002 -- Factors in literary reading -- Trends in literature participation, 1982-2002 -- Summary and conclusions
Introduction : around the book -- Extraterrestrial Kafka : ahead to the graphic novel -- Kafka's imaginary : a psychoanalytical footnote -- Booking Benjamin : the fate of a medium -- Pulsations of respect, or, Winged impossibility : poetic deconstruction -- Hegel, Glas, and the broader modernity -- Systems, games, and the player : did we manage to become human? -- Atmospherics of mood -- Thinking flat out : back to Bateson