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Author DiYanni, Robert, author.

Title You are what you read : a practical guide to reading well / Robert DiYanni.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2087436~S1
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Description xi, 226 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part One. Approaches -- Reading & Questioning: What Texts Say and Suggest; What They Show and Do--and How -- Reading for the Truth: Experiencing, Interpreting, and Evaluating What and How We Read -- Part Two. Applications -- Reading Nonfiction: Essays, Ideas and the Pleasures of Conversation -- Reading Fiction: Laboratories for the Creation of the Self -- Part Three. Uses -- Paradoxical Pleasures of Reading: Dialectical Energies -- Reading for Your Life: How Reading Is Intertwined With Living -- Coda. 9 Recommended Reading Practices -- Appendix A. Print & Digital Reading -- Appendix B. What to Read & Why.
Summary "Robert DiYanni's You Are What You Read is a guide for readers that seeks to restore the pleasures of reading lost in the digital age (and accounted for most eloquently by Sven Birkerts in The Gutenberg Elegies)"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Reading.
Books and reading.
Literature -- Appreciation.
ISBN 9780691206783 (hardback)
0691206783 (hardback)
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