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How to read like you mean it / Kyle Conway.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultural dialecticsPublisher: Athabasca, AB : AU Press, [2023]Description: 1 online resource (xv, 168 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781771993753
  • 1771993758
  • 9781771993760
  • 1771993766
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: How to read like you mean it.DDC classification:
  • 372.47 23/eng/20230801
LOC classification:
  • LB1050.45 .C78 2023
Other classification:
  • cci1icc
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface: How to Read This Book -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: What Is Reading? -- 1 To Read Is to Feel Lost -- 2 To Read Is to Wander -- 3 To Read Is to Feel Love -- 4 To Read Is to Be Free -- Conclusion: To Read Is to Live with Other People -- References -- Index
Summary: "In this candid and concise volume, Kyle Conway, author of The Art of Communication in a Polarized World, considers how we can open ourselves to others and to ideas that scare us by reading difficult texts. Conway argues that because we resist ideas we don't understand, we must embrace confusion as a constitutive part of understanding and meaningful exchange, whether between a reader and a text or between two people. Building on the work of hermeneutics scholar Paul Ricoeur, Conway evaluates the recurring paradox of miscommunication that results in deeper understanding and proposes strategies for reading that will allow individuals give up the illusion of certainty. In elegant and compelling prose, Conway introduces readers to the idea that it is through uncertainty that we can gain access to new and meaningful worlds--those of texts and other people."-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface: How to Read This Book -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: What Is Reading? -- 1 To Read Is to Feel Lost -- 2 To Read Is to Wander -- 3 To Read Is to Feel Love -- 4 To Read Is to Be Free -- Conclusion: To Read Is to Live with Other People -- References -- Index

"In this candid and concise volume, Kyle Conway, author of The Art of Communication in a Polarized World, considers how we can open ourselves to others and to ideas that scare us by reading difficult texts. Conway argues that because we resist ideas we don't understand, we must embrace confusion as a constitutive part of understanding and meaningful exchange, whether between a reader and a text or between two people. Building on the work of hermeneutics scholar Paul Ricoeur, Conway evaluates the recurring paradox of miscommunication that results in deeper understanding and proposes strategies for reading that will allow individuals give up the illusion of certainty. In elegant and compelling prose, Conway introduces readers to the idea that it is through uncertainty that we can gain access to new and meaningful worlds--those of texts and other people."-- Provided by publisher.

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