Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain - Brossura

Wolf, Maryanne

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0060933844 ISBN 13: 9780060933845

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2008

Riassunto

A developmental psychologist evaluates the ways in which reading and writing have transformed the human brain and the outside world, in an anecdotal study that reveals the significant changes in evolutionary brain physiology throughout history while making cautionary predictions about the possible consequences of technology. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

What a timely, passionate meditation on the miracle of reading! Wolf s words provide the very pleasure she describes: We feel the precious excitement that is contact with another mind, and are duly illuminated, provoked, steadied, and renewed. (Gish Jen, author of Mona in the Promised Land and The Love Wife)

For everyone who has wondered how reading and writing happen, here is an entertaining, comprehensive, delightfully clear account of how our brain allowed us to become word magicians. A splendid achievement! (Alberto Manguel, author of A History of Reading)

Quite simply this book is spectacular. Somehow Wolf takes the reader on an absolutely engrossing journey through time, cultures, the brain, and long-standing philosophical questions about our very existence, all in an astonishingly thorough account of the evolution of writing, reading, and the reading brain... Read this book for an incredible walk though time and reading; be prepared to be amazed. (Connie Juel, Ph.D., Professor of Education, Stanford University)

L'autore:

Maryanne Wolf is Professor of Child Development at Tufts University, where she is also the Director of the Center for Reading and Language Development. She publishes widely and is particularly known for her groundbreaking work in the area of dyslexia. She is the recipient of the American Psychological Association s Teacher of the Year Award, as well as the Distinguished Teacher Award from the Massachusetts Psychological Association.

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0060933844
• ISBN 13: 9780060933845
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 306
• Disegnatore: Stoodley Catherine