Readers for Life

How Reading and Listening in Childhood Shapes Us

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Sander L. Gilman, Heta Pyrhönen, Heta Pyrhonen, Sander L Gilman

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How does the act of reading shape an individual? In this stimulating book, fiction authors and literary scholars reflect on their memories of reading to explore that question, from their childhood and adolescent years into adulthood and beyond. Instead of focusing on reading as an act of escapism, or mere literacy, these writings celebrate reading as a lifelong, joyful experience that intertwines past and present. By revealing our diverse reading histories, the collection fosters awareness of the profound impact of reading on a person’s development and offers readers insights that will enrich their own literary experiences.Introduction by Sander L. Gilman and Heta Pyrhönen, with essays by Natalya Bekhta, Peter Brooks, Philip Davis, Linda and Michael Hutcheon, Sander L. Gilman, Daniel Mendelsohn, Laura Otis, Laura Oulanne, Heta Pyrhönen, Michael Rosen, Salman Rushdie, Cristina Sandu, Pajtim Statovci and Maria Tatar.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-09-16
Mått138 x 216 x 32 mm
Vikt512 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagReaktion Books
ISBN9781789149494

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Sander L. Gilman (Anthology Editor) Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of more than 100 books, including Stand Up Straight! A History of Posture (Reaktion, 2018).Heta Pyrhönen (Anthology Editor) Heta Pyrhönen is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Helsinki. She is the author or editor of many books including Reading Today (2018).

Setting the Scene Sander Gilman and Heta Pyrhoenen1 Ask Yourself Which Are the Books You Love Salman Rushdie2 Portable Magic Maria Tatar3 The Dream of an Intenser Experience Peter Brooks4 Reading a deux Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon5 A Life in Literature Philip Davis6 Reading (in) my Father's Shadow Heta Pyrhoenen7 Reading in Times of War Natalya Bekhta8 Reading as a Rambunctious Boy-Girl Laura Otis9 Figuring Stories, and Jumping Off the Page Pajtim Statovci10 Reading from the Spine Laura Oulanne11 The American Boy Daniel Mendelsohn12 A Typewriter's Travels Cristina Sandu13 What Did the Bear Think? A Chat with Michael Rosen14 Words After Sander GilmanReferencesWorks CitedContributorsPermissions

Readers for Life, edited by Sander L. Gilman and Heta Pyrhöhnen, is a superb and dazzling collection of unusual and insightful memoirs concerning the value of reading by notable writers such as Salman Rushdie, Peter Brooks, Cristina Sandu and others. At a time when illiteracy is mounting throughout the world, this book urgently recalls how reading still opens the minds of young people to deal with the conflicts they face, not with guns but with imagination. What a joy to read how these writers have profited from reading!