Readers for Life: How Reading and Listening in Childhood Shapes Us
Editat de Sander L. Gilman, Heta Pyrhönenen Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 noi 2024
Readers for Life is a collection of essays, mainly specially commissioned for the book, by fiction authors and literary scholars, who reflect on their childhood or adolescent memories of reading. The essays explore how the act of reading shapes an individual, from our formative years into adulthood and beyond. Instead of focusing on reading as an act of escapism, or mere literacy, these writings celebrate reading as a lifelong, joyful experience that intertwines past and present. By revealing our diverse reading histories, the collection fosters awareness of the profound impact of reading on a person’s development and offers readers insights that will enrich their own literary experiences.
Featuring an introduction by editors Sander L. Gilman and Heta Pyrhönen, Readers for Life includes essays by Natalya Bekhta, Peter Brooks, Philip Davis, Linda and Michael Hutcheon, Sander L. Gilman, Daniel Mendelsohn, Laura Otis, Laura Oulanne, Heta Pyrhönen, Salman Rushdie, Cristina Sandu, Pajtim Statovci, and Maria Tatar, as well as an interview with Michael Rosen.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781789149494
ISBN-10: 1789149495
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
ISBN-10: 1789149495
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
Notă biografică
Sander L. Gilman is distinguished professor emeritus of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as emeritus professor of psychiatry at Emory University. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of more than one hundred books, including Stand Up Straight! A History of Posture, also published by Reaktion Books. Heta Pyrhönen is professor of comparative literature at the University of Helsinki. She is the author or editor of many books, including Reading Today.
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“Readers for Life will prompt lifelong readers to cast their minds back to their earliest immersion in storyworlds, to beloved books and the people who recommended them. From the spines of the volumes on the shelf, to vivid illustrations, to the reverberation of language, to the mental impressions and ideas shaping their perceptions of experience, the reading recalled by Gilman and Pyrhönen’s contributors opens realms of possibility, invites adventures of perspective-taking, and encourages returns to both refreshing and challenging books.”
“A superb and dazzling collection of twelve unusual and insightful memoirs concerning the value of reading by notable writers such as Salman Rushdie, Peter Brooks, Cristina Sandu, and others. At a time when illiteracy is mounting throughout the world, this book urgently recalls how reading still opens the minds of young people to deal with the conflicts they face, not with guns but with imagination. What a joy to read how these writers have profited from reading!”
"This extraordinary book celebrates the rich array of experiences that reading offers, and the variety of responses that it nourishes. And it does so with individual gifts of grace in the form of essays from fourteen diverse and dedicated readers who bring together the wonders of the world and the worries of life. It shows how reading helps keep them in balance, and provides us with sometimes life-saving company when we are alone. And if we are ignorant, a book cannot laugh at us."