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You are what you read / Keith Danby

By: Material type: TextPublication details: London : Sam Books, c2003.Description: vi, 328 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1900836165
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: You are what you readDDC classification:
  • 418/.4 22 DAN
LOC classification:
  • PN83 .D59 2021
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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)"--
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
Books Bishop Barham University College Library Open Access / General collection 418/.4 DAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16266BBUC

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)"--

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