Reading for life /
by Davis, Philip [author.].
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BookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780198815983 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 428.4 DAV Subject(s): Reading | Languages | LanguageSummary: 'Reading For Life' is an anthology of poems and of extracts from prose fiction, related to a series of case-histories of individuals carefully reading, discussing their reading lives, and thinking about the relation of literature to their existence. It enables readers to gain increased imaginative access to the works in question through seeing how they have intensely affected equivalent readers - a novelist, a poet, a doctor, a teacher, an anthologist, but also non-specialists, ordinary people within shared reading groups in many different settings, finding help from literary texts in times of often painful personal need.
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| 428.2 KAR The joy of English: 100 illuminating conversations about the English language | 428.24 VOR Help your kids with English | 428.2407 CAM Cambridge IELTS 4: examination papers from University of Cambridge ESOL examinations - English for speakers of other languages | 428.4 DAV Reading for life / | 438.2421 COG Willkommen!: | 438.2421 COG Perfect your German | 438.2421 COG Perfect your German |
'Reading For Life' is an anthology of poems and of extracts from prose fiction, related to a series of case-histories of individuals carefully reading, discussing their reading lives, and thinking about the relation of literature to their existence. It enables readers to gain increased imaginative access to the works in question through seeing how they have intensely affected equivalent readers - a novelist, a poet, a doctor, a teacher, an anthologist, but also non-specialists, ordinary people within shared reading groups in many different settings, finding help from literary texts in times of often painful personal need.
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