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Becoming a Reader: The Experience of Fiction from Childhood to Adulthood
J. A. Appleyard
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Description for Becoming a Reader: The Experience of Fiction from Childhood to Adulthood
Hardback. Becoming a Reader in allowing us to predict our reading experience, allows us, as adults, to choose what to do with the power which reading gives us. Num Pages: 240 pages, index, notes. BIC Classification: CFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 530.
Becoming a Reader argues that, whatever our individual differences of personality and background, there is a regular sequence of attitudes we go through as we mature, which affect how we experience fiction, from the five-year-old child absorbed in the world of fantasy play, through the seventeen year old critical seeker of the truth, to the middle-aged reader recognizing their own experiences in fictional characters. Becoming a Reader argues that this sequence of responses can be worked out and described. The evidence for these claims is drawn from numerous studies of reading and from interviews with a great many readers, young ... Read more
Becoming a Reader argues that, whatever our individual differences of personality and background, there is a regular sequence of attitudes we go through as we mature, which affect how we experience fiction, from the five-year-old child absorbed in the world of fantasy play, through the seventeen year old critical seeker of the truth, to the middle-aged reader recognizing their own experiences in fictional characters. Becoming a Reader argues that this sequence of responses can be worked out and described. The evidence for these claims is drawn from numerous studies of reading and from interviews with a great many readers, young ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521383646
SKU
V9780521383646
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Ref
99-1
Reviews for Becoming a Reader: The Experience of Fiction from Childhood to Adulthood
'This book is an excellent introduction to the kinds of fiction that appeal to school-age children, adolescents, and adults. It provides a rich and provocative as well as informative view of the why and what of experiencing fiction by readers of different ages. It introduces the basic ideas, assumptions, and themes in literary interpretation and criticism. It portrays the kinds ... Read more