Philip Davis (Director of CRILS (In Centre For Research In Reading

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Reading and the Reader

The Literary Agenda

Beschreibung

Reading and the Reader defends the value of reading serious literature, investigating the role of the reader in the human search for meaning outside as well as inside of books.

Autor

Philip Davis is editor of The Reader magazine and director of a Centre for Research into Reading (CRILS) at the University of Liverpool, as well as being a Professor of English literature. His publications include works on Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, The Victorians, Bernard Malamud, as well as books on reading itself (The Experience of Reading; Real Voices: On Reading ). He is committed to the relation to literature to the wider world and is a member of the The Reader Organization, an outreach charity which brings reading-aloud to shared-reading groups in a variety of settings from dementia wards to facilities for looked-after children, including libraries, drug rehabilitation centres, mental health drop-in clinics and prisons.

Produktdetails

• Literary Agenda
• Verlag: OUP Oxford / Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 176g
• ISBN-13: 9780199683185
• ISBN-10: 0199683182
• Artikelnr.: 39303772