You Are What You Read (eBook)

A Practical Guide to Reading Well

Robert DiYanni (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
240 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21660-7 (ISBN)

Infos

How you can enrich your life by becoming a more skillful and engaged reader of literatureWe are what we read, according to Robert DiYanni. Reading may delight us or move us; we may read for instruction or inspiration. But more than this, in reading we discover ourselves. We gain access to the lives of others, explore the limitless possibilities of human existence, develop our understanding of the world around us, and find respite from the hectic demands of everyday life. In You Are What You Read, DiYanni provides a practical guide that shows how we can increase the benefits and pleasures of literature by becoming more skillful and engaged readers.DiYanni suggests that we attend first to what authors say and the way in which they say it, rather than rushing to decide what they mean. He considers the various forms of literature, from the essay to the novel, the short story to the poem, demonstrating rewarding approaches to each in sample readings of classic works. Through a series of illuminating oppositions, he explores the paradoxical pleasures of reading: solitary versus social reading, submitting to or resisting the author, reading inwardly or outwardly, and more. DiYanni closes with nine recommended reading practices, thoughts on the different experiences of print and digital reading, and advice on what to read and why.Written in a clear, inviting, and natural style, You Are What You Read is an essential guide for all who want to enrich their reading-and their life.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.4.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Skills for Scholars
• Reihe/Serie: Skills for Scholars
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: Adjective • Admiration • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn • Adviser • Aeneid • Aesthetics • Alberto Manguel • Alfred A. Knopf • Alliteration • aminatta forna • Analogy • Analysis • anecdotal evidence • Anecdote • Appeasement • Appreciation • Apprehension (understanding) • arnold rampersad • Arundhati Roy • author • awareness • Beauty • Book • book clubs • books • Carcanet Press • Certainty • characters • Close reading • Cognition • Concept • Concluding • connotation • Consciousness • Consideration • Convention • conventional wisdom • copying • Copyright • Critical reading • critical thinking • Criticism • Deliberation • Description • D. H. Lawrence • Dialectic • Dialogue • diction • Digital Literacy • Discernment • Disposition • Divine Comedy • E-Book • Elements • Eloquence • Emily Dickinson • enjambment • Epic Poetry • Ernest Hemingway • Essay • Essays • Ethos • Explanation • Exposition (narrative) • Feeling • Fiction • first language • Flannery O'Connor • fluency • formality • Francine Prose • Genre • gentleness • George Eliot • George Orwell • Guideline • Gutenberg Elegies • Harold Bloom • Henry David Thoreau • Hilary Mantel • how to become a better reader • How to Deal • how to read • human behavior • iliad • Imagery • images • Imagination • inference • Ingenuity • intentionality • interpersonal relationship • Interpretation • Interpreting • Irony • Jane Austen • jane Smiley • Jeanette Winterson • John Keats • Kenneth Burke • kinship • language • learning • Lecture • Literary criticism • Literary element • Literary genre • Literature • Lydia Davis • Lyrical Ballads • Lyric Poetry • madam • Marcel Proust • Meaning • Memoir • Metaphor • Michel de Montaigne • Middlemarch • Moby-Dick • Moisture • Mr. • Mrs. • Narration • narrative • Narrator • newspaper • Non-fiction • Nonfiction • noun • Novel • novelist • of education • Organizational Structure • parable • Paragraph • Paul Reps • perception • Persuasion • Philosophy • Phrase • Plautus • Pleasure • Pleasures • Poems • Poetry • Prediction • preface • Princeton University Press • Prose • Protagonist • Publication • Public speaking • Punctuation • Purpose • Rainer Maria Rilke • Ralph James • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Reading (process) • reason • rebecca solnit • Reinforcement • Relativism • Review article • rhetoric • Rhetorical Modes • Robert Scholes • Samuel Beckett • Satire • self-concept • Self-Help Book • self-love • Setting (narrative) • Short Story • simile • Solipsism • stanza • Stories • Storytelling • Style • Subjectivity • Suggestion • Sven Birkerts • syllogism • Sympathy • Ta-Nehisi Coates • texts • Theodore Roethke • theory • The Other Hand • The Signature of All Things • The Various • Thought • time served • Title page • Tone • To the lighthouse • T. S. Eliot • Tuttle Publishing • Understanding • V. • Verb • verbena • villanelle • Virginia Woolf • Voice • well-being • Wesleyan University Press • what to read • W. H. Auden • White's • William Carlos Williams • William Shakespeare • William Wordsworth • Woolf • Writer • Writing • Zadie Smith
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21660-6 / 0691216606
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21660-7 / 9780691216607