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The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
By Alan Jacobs
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Description
Jacobs's experience as a lecturer and many-time author suggests that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Many have absorbed the puritanical message that reading is, first and foremost, good for you--the intellectual equivalent of eating your Brussels sprouts. For such people, indeed for all readers, Jacobs offers some simple, powerful, and much needed advice: read at whim, read what gives you delight, and do so without shame, whether it be Stephen King or the King James Version of the Bible.
He offers an insightful, accessible, and playfully irreverent guide for aspiring readers. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of approaching literary fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, and the book explores everything from the invention of silent reading, reading responsively, rereading, and reading on electronic devices.
Invitingly written, with equal measures of wit and erudition, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction will appeal to all readers, whether they be novices looking for direction or old hands seeking to recapture the pleasures of reading they first experienced as children.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
172
Release Date:
2011-05-26
Publication Date:
2011-07-21
Publisher:
Oxford University Press Inc
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0199747490
ISBN13:
9780199747498
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
301 g
Height:
149 cm
Width:
218 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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