Reading for Life

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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

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ISBN: 9780198815983
Authors: Davis, Philip
Language: en
Pages: 320

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