Experience Of Reading - Philip Davis
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Experience Of Reading

By: Philip Davis

Hardcover | 24 October 1991 | Edition Number 1

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In "The Experience of Reading" , Philip Davis sets out to show that books matter most on a personal level. He gives a close account of the experience of thought and feeling that goes on inside a serious reader in the act of reading and argues that reading is one of our few remaining forms of personal meditation. Davis's theory stems from a belief that reading offers more than merely an escape into fantasy. As a professional teacher with a strong interest in wider access to universities, he seeks to involve readers outside, as well as inside, the university framework by using the modern novel as a means of linking the modern reader to other minds in other ages by means of a deliberate leap of the imagination. The book serves as an introduction to the post-war novelists Malamud, Bellow, Lessing and Middleton; yet its aim is far wider. Davis uses the modern novel as a starting-point in seeking validation of his thesis that also takes in writers as diverse as Ben Jonson, Bunyan, Byron, Wordsworth, and George Eliot. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of English literature.

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