Reading: A Very Short Introduction

Author:   Belinda Jack (Fellow and Tutor, Christ Church, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198820581


Pages:   160
Publication Date:   18 April 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Belinda Jack (Fellow and Tutor, Christ Church, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 11.20cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 17.50cm
Weight:   0.126kg
ISBN:  

9780198820581


ISBN 10:   0198820585
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   18 April 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of illustrations 1. What is reading? 2. Ancient worlds 3. Reading manuscripts, reading print 4. Modern reading 5. Forbidden reading 6. Reading and/as interpretation 7. Pluralities Further reading Index

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An altogether riveting read. * Paradigm Explorer *


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Belinda Jack is Fellow and Tutor at Christ Church, University of Oxford. She features regularly in the press and media thanks to the popularity and insight of her published works, including titles such as The Woman Reader (Yale University Press, 2012) and George Sand: A Woman's Life Writ Large (Chatto & Windus, 1999). As well as her five books, Professor Jack is widely published through her many articles, essays, chapters, and reviews. Her recent work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Literary Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and BBC History Magazine, amongst other publications. For a four year period, she also gave public lectures at The Museum of London under the general title, The Mysteries of Reading and Writing. In 2013, Professor Jack was appointed the Gresham Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, London.

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