Becoming a Reader: The Experience of Fiction from Childhood to AdulthoodBecoming a Reader in allowing us to predict our reading experience, allows us, as adults, to choose what to do with the power which reading gives us. |
Contents
Mapping the Terrain | 1 |
ReaderOriented Theory | 4 |
Reading and Psychological Development | 9 |
Five Roles Readers Take | 14 |
Early Childhood The Reader as Player | 21 |
The Young Childs World | 23 |
The Cognitive Account of Fantasy | 26 |
The Affective Power of Fantasy | 35 |
Realism | 107 |
Thinking | 111 |
Reading and Studying Literature | 113 |
College and Beyond The Reader as Interpreter | 121 |
Two Students Reading | 123 |
The Transparent Text | 127 |
The Problematic Text | 130 |
The Intelligible Text | 136 |
Fantasy Play and Trust | 45 |
Later Childhood The Reader as Hero and Heroine | 57 |
The Young Readers World | 58 |
What Children Read | 60 |
Cognitive Aspects | 64 |
Affective Aspects | 68 |
Character | 72 |
Two Points of View | 78 |
The Process of Growth | 82 |
A Note on Sex Roles | 90 |
Adolescence The Reader as Thinker | 94 |
The Adolescents World | 96 |
What Adolescents Read | 99 |
Involvement and Identification | 101 |
The Text Theorized | 146 |
Irony | 152 |
Adulthood The Pragmatic Reader | 155 |
Elizabeth | 156 |
Adulthood | 159 |
The Uses of Reading | 163 |
Escaping | 164 |
Searching for Truth | 171 |
Discovering Usable Images | 182 |
Notes | 195 |
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Common terms and phrases
A. C. Nielsen adolescent adult readers adulthood adventure Applebee attitudes become Bernard Lonergan Bilbo Baggins Bobbsey Twins Carol Carol Gilligan characters child childhood cognitive complex concrete criticism culture describe developmental discover distinctive English major Erikson especially example experience fairy fairy tales fantasy feelings Frye girl Hardy Boys hero high school human ideas images imagine interesting interpretation involved irony J. R. R. Tolkien kind of reading language literary lives look mature meaning Nancy Drew narrative narrator novels older one's parents Piaget picture play plot poem point of view problems psychological realistic relationships role romance says schema seems sense simply social stage story structuralists structure suggest symbols T. S. Eliot talk teachers television tell themes theory things truth understanding University Press values Wolfgang Iser writing young children
References to this book
Why Reading Literature in School Still Matters: Imagination, Interpretation ... Dennis J. Sumara No preview available - 2002 |
Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age Emory Elliott,Lou Freitas Caton,Jeffrey Rhyne Limited preview - 2002 |