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Reading and the reader (Record no. 34590)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780199683185
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 028.9
Item number DAV
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Davis, Philip
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Reading and the reader
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Oxford University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2013
Place of publication, distribution, etc Oxford :
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent x, 144 p. ;
Dimensions 20 cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 20.99
Price type code ₤
Unit of pricing 117.05
490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement The literary agenda.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is sceptically challenged from within, for example, by the sometimes rival claims of culturalhistory, contextualized explanation, or media studies. It is shaken from without by even greater pressures: by ec. 'Reading and the Reader' defends the value of reading serious literature, investigating the role of the reader in the human search for meaning outside as well as inside of books. The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is sceptically challenged from within, for example, by the sometimes rival claims of culturalhistory, contextualized explanation, or media studies. It is shaken from without by even greater pressures: by economic exigency and the severe social attitudes that can follow from it; by technological change that may leave the traditional forms of serious human communication looking merelyantiquated. For just these reasons this is the right time for renewal, to start reinvigorated work into the meaning and value of literary reading. Reading and the Reader offers a defence of reading serious literature, where reading offers a place for inner contemplation, emotion, imagination, and thought-experiment through the energising booster-rocket of literature. It is argued that literature creates a holding-ground in which a dense sense of experience is registered. Such a place is vital to human well-being in the following respects: in sustaining the ability to use and not just suffer one's experience; to be able to thinkone's thoughts, even those that are customarily unadmitted or felt as anomalous or unworthy; to find room for a realm of speculation in between religions and secularization, in between literature and life. Reading and the Reader, one of the first volumes in the Literary Agenda series, exists to defend thevalue of reading, to narrow the gasp between the way writers and readers think, to bring literary thinking into the ordinary thinking of the world - especially at a time when the arts and humanities are under some threat. Literature is useful in terms of deep human needs. It offers a form of time-travel - across ages, countries, different minds - that provides alternatives to any conventional worldview.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Literature Studies
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Education
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Aims & Objectives
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Books & Reading
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Item type Books
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     DAU DAU 07/08/2025 KB 2456.88 1 028.9 DAV 036083 05/09/2025 05/09/2025 Books