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# Reading and the Reader: The Literary Agenda

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## Customer Reviews

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    Reading fights back
  

*by D***G on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 May 2014*

Resist the dumbing-down of the "free" marketeers with this erudite analysis of why reading matters. Stay critical, stay literate, stay on top of the BS.

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    Inspirational
  

*by J***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 January 2014*

This book is the first of a series entitled The Literary Agenda. Its central thesis provides an argument for the importance of reading serious literature and its effects on the emotional intelligence of the reader. In short, to read and appreciate serious literature has major and positive benefits for the one who reads. By literature, the author means poetry, drama and fiction.Not the least of the pleasures of reading this book is to enjoy the examples the author gives from, inter alia, Hardy, Shakespeare, Conrad, C Day Lewis, and his sensitive use of these authors' works to illustrate and explain his central points. The reading of literature, he argues, provides for the reader a `holding-ground' which is the establishment of a mental place for intellectual and emotional contemplation. Thus the reader can think about and experience alternative world views, ideas and emotions in a `place apart' from the reality of his own world.It is no exaggeration that I have found this little book inspirational. While it is essential to read it from cover to cover to appreciate its full argument and message, I am convinced that I will read sentences, paragraphs, pages and sections over and over again for years to come to appreciate the subtlety of what the writer has to say. It is not by any means a quick nor an easy read, despite its brevity, but it is a pleasurable one, to be taken slowly and to be revisited.

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    Literature has so much to offer us
  

*by S***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 February 2014*

This book is not a quick read but one to ponder over. In a time when there is much less support for the arts and humanities (for example, in 2009 the government cut funding for the arts in favour of the sciences), this book provides a staunch defence of the importance of literature and reading. It is part of an Oxford University Press series, "The Literary Agenda", which is "a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities" (quote source: [...]). I think that reading is vitally important for personal development and literature has much to offer us in terms of different perspectives and views.This is an excellent book and I will certainly be reading further publications in this series.

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