Davis presents original case-histories of readers to delve into just what reading is and how it works. Each chapter begins with a poem or excerpt which becomes the scene either of a reading-group transcription or of a thought-piece from an interviewed reader to explore therapeutic reading and how culture might impact upon health.
Davis presents original case-histories of readers to delve into just what reading is and how it works. Each chapter begins with a poem or excerpt which becomes the scene either of a reading-group transcription or of a thought-piece from an interviewed reader to explore therapeutic reading and how culture might impact upon health.
Philip Davis is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool. Reading for Life is an account of the work done by his research unit, the Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society (CRILS) in partnership with outreach charity The Reader since 2008. He is author of works on Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Eliot, Bernard Malamud, and on the uses of memory from Wordsworth to Lawrence, and has written various books on literary reading. He is editor of OUP's series The Literary Agenda on the role of literature in the world of the twenty-first century and a new series entitled My Reading.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Chapter 1 No Defence against the Words: A Story of Sonnet 29 Chapter 2 The Schoolteacher Chapter 3 The Woman Who Pointed Chapter 4 The Woman Who Became a Poem Chapter 5 The Brain of Frances Chapter 6 The Doctor Chapter 7 Experiments with Renaissance Scripts Chapter 8 About Time: Three Little Poems Chapter 9 The Novel Experimenter Chapter 10 The Anthologist Chapter 11 The Novelist Afterword
Introduction Chapter 1 No Defence against the Words: A Story of Sonnet 29 Chapter 2 The Schoolteacher Chapter 3 The Woman Who Pointed Chapter 4 The Woman Who Became a Poem Chapter 5 The Brain of Frances Chapter 6 The Doctor Chapter 7 Experiments with Renaissance Scripts Chapter 8 About Time: Three Little Poems Chapter 9 The Novel Experimenter Chapter 10 The Anthologist Chapter 11 The Novelist Afterword
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