Reading for Life

This volume 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. Introduction; 1 No Defence against the Words: A Story of Sonnet 29; 2 The Schoolteacher; 3 The Woman Who Pointed; 4 The Woman Who Became a Poem; 5 The Brain of Frances; 6 The Doctor; 7 Experiments with Renaissance Scripts; 8 About Time: Three Little Poems; 9 The Novel Experimenter; 10 The Anthologist; 11 The Novelist; Afterword

An aparitie	06-02-20
Autor	Davis, Philip
Dimensiuni	234x156 mm
Editura	Oxford
Format	Hardback
ISBN	9780198815983
Limba	Engleza
Nr pag	320