The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction write by Alan Jacobs. This book was released on 2011-05-26. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way. In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers, reading is alive and well in America. There are millions of devoted readers supporting hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Oprah's Book Club is hugely influential, and a recent NEA survey reveals an actual uptick in the reading of literary fiction. Jacobs's interactions with his students and the readers of his own books, however, suggest that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Many have absorbed the puritanical message that reading is, first and foremost, good for you--the intellectual equivalent of eating your Brussels sprouts. For such people, indeed for all readers, Jacobs offers some simple, powerful, and much needed advice: read at whim, read what gives you delight, and do so without shame, whether it be Stephen King or the King James Version of the Bible. In contrast to the more methodical approach of Mortimer Adler's classic How to Read a Book (1940), Jacobs offers an insightful, accessible, and playfully irreverent guide for aspiring readers. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of approaching literary fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, and the book explores everything from the invention of silent reading, reading responsively, rereading, and reading on electronic devices. Invitingly written, with equal measures of wit and erudition, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction will appeal to all readers, whether they be novices looking for direction or old hands seeking to recapture the pleasures of reading they first experienced as children.
The Pleasure of Reading
The Pleasure of Reading - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pleasure of Reading write by Antonia Fraser. This book was released on 2015-10-20. The Pleasure of Reading available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this delightful collection, forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read, and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Catherine Cookson, Carol Ann Duffy, Germaine Greer, Alan Hollinghurst, Doris Lessing, Candia McWilliam, Edna O'Brien, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Sue Townsend, and Jeanette Winterson. The new edition will include essays from ten new writers.
The Pleasures of Reading
The Pleasures of Reading - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pleasures of Reading write by Robert Alter. This book was released on 1996. The Pleasures of Reading available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A distinguished critic rescues literature from the ivory tower and reestablishes reading as a personal source of complex pleasure and insight.
The Pleasures of Reading
The Pleasures of Reading - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pleasures of Reading write by Catherine Sheldrick Ross. This book was released on 2014-06-27. The Pleasures of Reading available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on years of ground-breaking research, this book supplies a look at the unique relationship between each text and the individual reader that results in a satisfying, pleasurable, and even life-changing reading experience. Following up on her critically acclaimed Reading Matters: What the Research Reveals about Reading, Libraries, and Community, Catherine Sheldrick Ross takes a new look at pleasure reading through 30 thought-provoking essays based on themes arranged from A to Z. In short lively chapters, she discusses topics ranging from "Alexia," "Bad Reading," and "Changing Lives" to "Romance Fiction," "Self-help," "Titles," "Vampires," and "Year of Reading." Drawing on her own research as well as other published sources, Ross comments on the significance of each theme, provides examples of the phenomenon, and develops the topic chronologically, through further examples, or through reversals. The essays are unified by an underlying theory of reading that views readers as sense-makers, actively engaged in reading themselves into the text and reading the texts back into their own lives. It gives educators and librarians insights into their roles with readers and offers a message about the importance of pleasure reading. A short list of resources for further reading is supplied with each topic.
The Pleasure of Reading
The Pleasure of Reading - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pleasure of Reading write by Eric Macfarlane. This book was released on 2019-07-23. The Pleasure of Reading available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Pleasure of Reading reflects on the joys of owning and reading books. It looks at the situations that lead people to become keen readers and the ways in which parents and teachers can encourage children’s love of stories. It is critical of traditional methods of studying literature that deter many children from regarding reading as a pleasurable activity. The book also looks at the interests and passions that motivate novelists and the wide range of subjects on which they choose to write, the kind of stories they tell, the themes that they explore and the skill with which they handle their plots, characters and settings. Particular attention is given to the novelist’s role as a protester against injustice, persecution and the abuse of power.
