Reading for Life
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 February 2020
- ISBN 9780198815983
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages308 pages
- Size 232x160x22 mm
- Weight 676 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 Illustrations 0
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Short description:
This volume presents original case-histories of readers to delve into just what reading is and how it works.
Each chapter begins with a poem or excerpt which becomes the scene either of a reading-group transcription or of a thought-piece from an interviewed reader to explore therapeutic reading and how culture might impact upon health.
Long description:
Reading for Life is an anthology of poems and of extracts from prose fiction, related to a series of case-histories of individuals carefully reading, discussing their reading lives, and thinking about the relation of literature to their existence. It enables readers to gain increased imaginative access to the works in question through seeing how they have intensely affected equivalent readers--a novelist, a poet, a doctor, a teacher, an anthologist, but also non-specialists, ordinary people within shared reading groups in many different settings, finding help from literary texts in times of often painful personal need. It is the story of the work done by Philip Davis' research unit, the Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society (CRILS), at the University of Liverpool, in a ten-year partnership with the outreach charity The Reader, taking serious literature to often neglected communities and struggling individuals through the shared reading--alive and aloud--of literature from all ages.
Reading for Life is a detailed account of what reading literature can do for a wide variety of individuals in relation to a wide variety of texts: it will be of interest to serious readers in the wider world as much as to scholars working within literary studies, and to all those involved in thinking about the therapeutic interactions of literature and life in psychology, medicine, and mental health support settings.
Davis' subjects have often tried many forms of therapy over many years, and he persuasively argues that literature, with its unpredictable and powerful effects, can help people break out of the rote narratives that therapy can inculcate, and make new and transformative discoveries. Davis, a professor of literature and psychology, trains his critical eye just as closely on the transcripts of the group sessions and interviews as on the literary works, many of which are included in part or in full.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
No Defence against the Words: A Story of Sonnet 29
The Schoolteacher
The Woman Who Pointed
The Woman Who Became a Poem
The Brain of Frances
The Doctor
Experiments with Renaissance Scripts
About Time: Three Little Poems
The Novel Experimenter
The Anthologist
The Novelist
Afterword
