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  title info:
    title: Reading for life
  name:
    name part: Davis, Philip (Philip Maurice)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 290 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 'Reading for Life' is an anthology of poems and of extracts from prose fiction, related to a series of case-histories of individuals carefully reading, discussing their reading lives and thinking about the relation of literature to their existence. It enables readers to gain increased imaginative access to the works in question through seeing how they have intensely affected equivalent readers, a novelist, a poet, a doctor, a teacher, an anthologist, but also non-specialists, ordinary people within shared reading groups in many different settings, finding help from literary texts in times of often painful personal need. It is the story of the work done by Philip Davis' research unit, the Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society (CRILS), at the University of Liverpool, in a ten-year partnership with the outreach charity The Reader, taking serious literature to often neglected communities and struggling individuals through the shared reading, alive and aloud, of literature from all ages. Reading for Life is a detailed account of what reading literature can do for a wide variety of individuals in relation to a wide variety of texts. It will be of interest to serious readers in the wider world as much as to scholars working within literary studies, and to all those involved in thinking about the therapeutic interactions of literature and life in psychology, medicine and mental health support settings.
  note: Philip Davis.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: Books and reading
    geographic: Great Britain
  classification: Z1003 .D38 2020
  classification: 028/.90942
  identifier: 0198815980
  identifier: 9780198815983
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 190625
    record change date: 20210825095403.0
    record identifier: in00004451194