You are what you read : a practical guide to reading well / Robert DiYanni.
"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)"--
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Princeton University Press,
[2021]
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Table of 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.