Philip Davis (formerly Di Emeritus Professor of English Literature

Reading for Life

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 157mm x 235mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9780192871374
• ISBN-10: 0192871374
• Artikelnr.: 63689792

Autorenporträt

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