Life And Literature Readers
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Dead Babies And Seaside Towns
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Author : Alice Jolly
language : en
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
Release Date : 2015-07-02
Dead Babies And Seaside Towns written by Alice Jolly and has been published by Unbound Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When Alice Jolly's second child was stillborn and all subsequent attempts to have another baby failed, she began to consider every possible option, no matter how unorthodox. Shot through with humour and full of hope, Dead Babies and Seaside Towns is an intensely personal account of the search for an alternative way to create a family. As she battles through miscarriage, IVF and failed adoption attempts, Alice finds comfort in the faded charm of Britain's crumbling seaside towns. The journey ultimately leads her and her husband to a small town in Minnesota, and to two remarkable women who offer to make the impossible possible. In this beautifully written book, Alice Jolly describes with a novelist's skill the events that many others have lived through – even if they may feel compelled to keep them hidden. Her decision not to hide but to share them, without a trace of self-pity, turns Dead Babies and Seaside Towns into a universal story: one that begins in tragedy but ends in joy.
The Social Life Of Books
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Author : Abigail Williams
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-27
The Social Life Of Books written by Abigail Williams and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
“A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books.”—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book Review Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which shared reading shaped the lives and literary culture of the eighteenth century, offering new perspectives on how books have been used by their readers, and the part they have played in middle-class homes and families. Drawing on marginalia, letters and diaries, library catalogues, elocution manuals, subscription lists, and more, Williams offers fresh and fascinating insights into reading, performance, and the history of middle-class home life. “Williams’s charming pageant of anecdotes…conjures a world strikingly different from our own but surprisingly similar in many ways, a time when reading was on the rise and whole worlds sprang up around it.”—TheWashington Post
Ruined By Reading
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Author : Lynne Sharon Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2001-03-15
Ruined By Reading written by Lynne Sharon Schwartz and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of 1996 'Without books how could I have become myself?' In this wonderfully written meditation, Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers deeply felt insight into why we read and how what we read shapes our lives. An enchanting celebration of the printed word.
On Reading Well
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Author : Karen Swallow Prior
language : en
Publisher: Brazos Press
Release Date : 2018-09-04
On Reading Well written by Karen Swallow Prior and has been published by Brazos Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-04 with Religion categories.
★ Publishers Weekly starred review A Best Book of 2018 in Religion, Publishers Weekly Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue, says acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior. In this book, she takes readers on a guided tour through works of great literature both ancient and modern, exploring twelve virtues that philosophers and theologians throughout history have identified as most essential for good character and the good life. Covering authors from Henry Fielding to Cormac McCarthy, Jane Austen to George Saunders, and Flannery O'Connor to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Prior explores some of the most compelling universal themes found in the pages of classic books, helping readers learn to love life, literature, and God through their encounters with great writing. The book includes end-of-chapter reflection questions geared toward book club discussions, original artwork throughout, and a foreword by Leland Ryken. The hardcover edition was named a Best Book of 2018 in Religion by Publishers Weekly. "[A] lively treatise on building character through books.'"--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
The Lives Of Literature
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Author : Arnold Weinstein
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-18
The Lives Of Literature written by Arnold Weinstein and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Mixing passion and humor, a personal work of literary criticism that demonstrates how the greatest books illuminate our lives Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes us by giving us intimate access to an astonishing variety of other lives, experiences, and places across the ages. Reflecting on a lifetime of reading, teaching, and writing, The Lives of Literature explores, with passion, humor, and whirring intellect, a professor’s life, the thrills and traps of teaching, and, most of all, the power of literature to lead us to a deeper understanding of ourselves and the worlds we inhabit. As an identical twin, Weinstein experienced early the dislocation of being mistaken for another person—and of feeling that he might be someone other than he had thought. In vivid readings elucidating the classics of authors ranging from Sophocles to James Joyce and Toni Morrison, he explores what we learn by identifying with their protagonists, including those who, undone by wreckage and loss, discover that all their beliefs are illusions. Weinstein masterfully argues that literature’s knowing differs entirely from what one ends up knowing when studying mathematics or physics or even history: by entering these characters’ lives, readers acquire a unique form of knowledge—and come to understand its cost. In The Lives of Literature, a master writer and teacher shares his love of the books that he has taught and been taught by, showing us that literature matters because we never stop discovering who we are.
My Life With Bob
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Author : Pamela Paul
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt
Release Date : 2017-05-02
My Life With Bob written by Pamela Paul and has been published by Henry Holt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"For twenty-eight years, Pamela Paul has been keeping a diary that records the books she reads, rather than the life she leads. Or does it? Over time, it's become clear that this Book of Books, or Bob, as she calls him, tells a much bigger story. For Paul, as for many readers, books reflect her inner life--her fantasies and hopes, her dreams and ideas. And her life, in turn, influences which books she chooses, whether for solace or escape, diversion or self-reflection, information or entertainment. My Life with Bob isn't about what's in those books; it's about the relationship between books and readers"--
Literature And Transformation
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Author : Thor Magnus Tangerås
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2020-02-19
Literature And Transformation written by Thor Magnus Tangerås and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
It has long remained a tacit assumption in hermeneutics and literary theory that works of imaginative literature have the potential to change the reader’s self. Literature and Transformation develops a method called Intimate Reading to investigate how ordinary readers are deeply moved by what they read and the transformative impact such experiences have on their sense of self. The book presents unique narratives of such experiences and suggests a theory of transformative affective patterns that may form the basis of an affective literary theory.
Reading For Life
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Author : Philip Davis
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-12
Reading For Life written by Philip Davis and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
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. It is the story of the work done by Philip Davis' research unit, the Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society (CRILS), at the University of Liverpool, in a ten-year partnership with the outreach charity The Reader, taking serious literature to often neglected communities and struggling individuals through the shared reading—alive and aloud—of literature from all ages. Reading for Life is a detailed account of what reading literature can do for a wide variety of individuals in relation to a wide variety of texts: it will be of interest to serious readers in the wider world as much as to scholars working within literary studies, and to all those involved in thinking about the therapeutic interactions of literature and life in psychology, medicine, and mental health support settings.
Stories Of Us
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Author : Bobby Sachdeva
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2019-12-26
Stories Of Us written by Bobby Sachdeva and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-26 with Social Science categories.
Does saving your family’s honour trump personal happiness? Will the god be appeased if you overfeed him and not help the needy? Will the law protect the stray dog that tears an eight-year-old into shreds? Is a deceased manual scavenger just another statistic who risks his life for a cleaner future? In the voice of the common man, Bobby Sachdeva questions our everyday practices in an unorthodox manner in Stories of Us. From Rishi to Parth and Lata to Rajnath, the hard-hitting and honest narratives are sure to inspire the common person to rethink the values long etched in our belief system.
The Books In My Life
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Author : Henry Miller
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 1969
The Books In My Life written by Henry Miller and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this unique work, Henry Miller gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years.