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Cargando... Slow Reading in a Hurried Age (edición 2013)por David Mikics
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I'm not well-read enough for this book. ( ) I loved this book! It was an entirely enjoyable journey through the various modes of literature, prose, and poetry including a chapter on how to read drama. David Mikics provides a highly intelligent but accessible set of guidelines (he calls rules) that act more like heuristics for initiating careful, considered appreciation of an author's themes and ideas. I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes to savour their reading. Very enriching and practical look at the art, skill, and enjoyment of reading. The early chapter titled "The Problem" is a bit of a slog, and can likely be skipped if you picked up the book based on the title (hint: "Hurried Age" is the problem). The rest of the book does an excellent job of showing by doing. Mikics does not just tell you to read deeply, he takes the time to walk through deep readings of the examples provided. In the end, the amount of information in the book is a bit overwhelming. I can't help but wonder if the rules (14 of them!) could not be distilled into just a few simple axioms. I ended up skipping the final chapters on reading poetry, drama, and essays, not for lack of enjoyment, but simply for information overload. I hope to come back to each of these chapters later. Each reading subject chapter (short stories, novels, and the above mentioned poetry, drama, and essays) could easily be expanded into a full book appropriate for a college level reading course. I would gladly read such a book on any of these if Mikics were to write it. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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