Slow Reading in a Hurried Age - Rilegato

Mikics, David

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ISBN 10: 0674724720 ISBN 13: 9780674724723

Casa editrice: Belknap Pr, 2013

Riassunto

Wrapped in the glow of the computer or phone screen, we cruise websites; we skim and skip. We glance for a brief moment at whatever catches our eye and then move on. Slow Reading in a Hurried Age reminds us of another mode of reading--the kind that requires our full attention and that has as its goal not the mere gathering of information but the deeper understanding that only good books can offer.

Slow Reading in a Hurried Age is a practical guide for anyone who yearns for a more meaningful and satisfying reading experience, and who wants to sharpen reading skills and improve concentration. David Mikics, a noted literary scholar, demonstrates exactly how the tried-and-true methods of slow reading can provide a more immersive, fulfilling experience. He begins with fourteen preliminary rules for slow reading and shows us how to apply them. The rules are followed by excursions into key genres, including short stories, novels, poems, plays, and essays.

Reading, Mikics says, should not be drudgery, and not mere escape either, but a way to live life at a higher pitch. A good book is a pathway to finding ourselves, by getting lost in the words and works of others.

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Recensione:

Like [Charles] Lamb, Mikics understands how modern culture discourages reading for pleasure--especially in an Internet world of short-lived but insistent information. Inviting readers into a less frenetic, more rewarding world, Mikics explores a series of literary masterpieces, showing how getting lost in a book is still the best way to find joys we really want...Readers acquire stimulating perspectives on individual works by Homer and Whitman, Dickens and Cather, Shakespeare and Chekov. But they also develop the intellectual poise to set one work into play with others, across boundaries of nationality, style, and history. An exceptional book whetting readers' appetites for the savoring of many more. --Bryce Christensen"Booklist (starred review)" (09/15/2013)

David Mikics makes an impassioned argument for the virtues of what his title proclaims. --Rachel Bowlby, Times Higher Education, 10/10/2013

David Mikics makes an impassioned argument for the virtues of what his title proclaims. --Rachel Bowlby, Times Higher Education, 10/10/2013

What sets Mikics apart are not his precepts, but his examples" --Leah Price, Times Literary Supplement, 3 January 2014

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• Editore: Belknap Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0674724720
• ISBN 13: 9780674724723
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320