EXPERIENCE OF READING

ISBN-13: 9780415070515 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 332 str.

Opis

In The Experience of Reading, Philip Davis sets out to show that books matter most on a personal level. He gives a close account of the experience of thought and feeling that goes on inside a serious reader in the act of reading and argues that reading is one of our few remaining forms of personal meditation. Davis's theory stems from a belief that reading offers more than merely an escape into fantasy. As a professional teacher with a strong interest in wider access to universities, he seeks to involve readers outside, as well as inside, the university framework by using the modern novel as a means of linking the modern reader to other minds in other ages by means of a deliberate leap of the imagination. The book serves as an introduction to the post-war novelists Malamud, Bellow, Lessing and Middleton; yet its aim is far wider. Davis uses the modern novel as a starting-point in seeking validation of his thesis that also takes in writers as diverse as Ben Jonson, Bunyan, Byron, Wordsworth, and George Eliot.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 THE REALITY OF READING; Chapter 2 THE CART AND THE HORSE (I); Chapter 3 THE CART AND THE HORSE (II); Chapter 4 ANCIENT AND MODERN (I); Chapter 5 ANCIENT AND MODERN (II); Chapter 6 'EFFECTIVE ENGLISH';

O autorze

Philip Davis