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Danby, Keith

You are what you read / Keith Danby - London : Sam Books, c2003. - vi, 328 p. ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One. Approaches -- Reading & Questioning: What Texts Say and Suggest; What They Show and Do--and How -- Reading for the Truth: Experiencing, Interpreting, and Evaluating What and How We Read -- Part Two. Applications -- Reading Nonfiction: Essays, Ideas and the Pleasures of Conversation -- Reading Fiction: Laboratories for the Creation of the Self -- Part Three. Uses -- Paradoxical Pleasures of Reading: Dialectical Energies -- Reading for Your Life: How Reading Is Intertwined With Living -- Coda. 9 Recommended Reading Practices -- Appendix A. Print & Digital Reading -- Appendix B. What to Read & Why.

"Robert DiYanni's You Are What You Read is a guide for readers that seeks to restore the pleasures of reading lost in the digital age (and accounted for most eloquently by Sven Birkerts in The Gutenberg Elegies)"--

ISBN: 1900836165

LCCN: 2020029863

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Reading.
Literature--Appreciation.

LC Class. No.: PN83 / .D59 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 418/.4 / DAN