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You are what you read : a practical guide to reading well / Robert DiYanni.

By: DiYanni, Robert [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 226 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 0691216606; 9780691216607.Subject(s): Reading | Literature -- Appreciation | Reading | Lecture | Litt�erature -- Appr�eciation | EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading & Phonics | Literature -- Appreciation | ReadingGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: You are what you readDDC classification: 418/.4 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Part One. Approaches -- Reading & Questioning: What Texts Say and Suggest; What They Show and Do -- and How -- Reading for the Truth: Experiencing, Interpreting, and Evaluating What and How We Read -- Part Two. Applications -- Reading Nonfiction: Essays, Ideas and the Pleasures of Conversation -- Reading Fiction: Laboratories for the Creation of the Self -- Part Three. Uses -- Paradoxical Pleasures of Reading: Dialectical Energies -- Reading for Your Life: How Reading Is Intertwined With Living -- Coda. 9 Recommended Reading Practices -- Appendix A. Print & Digital Reading -- Appendix B. What to Read & Why.
Summary: "Robert DiYanni's You Are What You Read is a guide for readers that seeks to restore the pleasures of reading lost in the digital age (and accounted for most eloquently by Sven Birkerts in The Gutenberg Elegies)"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One. Approaches -- Reading & Questioning: What Texts Say and Suggest; What They Show and Do -- and How -- Reading for the Truth: Experiencing, Interpreting, and Evaluating What and How We Read -- Part Two. Applications -- Reading Nonfiction: Essays, Ideas and the Pleasures of Conversation -- Reading Fiction: Laboratories for the Creation of the Self -- Part Three. Uses -- Paradoxical Pleasures of Reading: Dialectical Energies -- Reading for Your Life: How Reading Is Intertwined With Living -- Coda. 9 Recommended Reading Practices -- Appendix A. Print & Digital Reading -- Appendix B. What to Read & Why.

"Robert DiYanni's You Are What You Read is a guide for readers that seeks to restore the pleasures of reading lost in the digital age (and accounted for most eloquently by Sven Birkerts in The Gutenberg Elegies)"-- Provided by publisher.

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