The modern reader and speaker
Author: David Charles Bell
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Published: 1856
Total Pages: 466
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Author: David Charles Bell
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Published: 1856
Total Pages: 466
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Published: 1857
Total Pages: 464
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 146
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe classic book of children's poetry that immortalized "The Land of Counterpane," "The Land of Nod," "My Shadow," and "Foreign Land."
Author: Maryanne Wolf
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-08-14
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0062388797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author of the acclaimed Proust and the Squid follows up with a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies. A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf’s Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we think and feel. Since then, the ways we process written language have changed dramatically with many concerned about both their own changes and that of children. New research on the reading brain chronicles these changes in the brains of children and adults as they learn to read while immersed in a digitally dominated medium. Drawing deeply on this research, this book comprises a series of letters Wolf writes to us—her beloved readers—to describe her concerns and her hopes about what is happening to the reading brain as it unavoidably changes to adapt to digital mediums. Wolf raises difficult questions, including: Will children learn to incorporate the full range of "deep reading" processes that are at the core of the expert reading brain? Will the mix of a seemingly infinite set of distractions for children’s attention and their quick access to immediate, voluminous information alter their ability to think for themselves? With information at their fingertips, will the next generation learn to build their own storehouse of knowledge, which could impede the ability to make analogies and draw inferences from what they know? Will all these influences change the formation in children and the use in adults of "slower" cognitive processes like critical thinking, personal reflection, imagination, and empathy that comprise deep reading and that influence both how we think and how we live our lives? How can we preserve deep reading processes in future iterations of the reading brain? Concerns about attention span, critical reasoning, and over-reliance on technology are never just about children—Wolf herself has found that, though she is a reading expert, her ability to read deeply has been impacted as she has become increasingly dependent on screens. Wolf draws on neuroscience, literature, education, and philosophy and blends historical, literary, and scientific facts with down-to-earth examples and warm anecdotes to illuminate complex ideas that culminate in a proposal for a biliterate reading brain. Provocative and intriguing, Reader, Come Home is a roadmap that provides a cautionary but hopeful perspective on the impact of technology on our brains and our most essential intellectual capacities—and what this could mean for our future.
Author: John Albion Andrew
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Published: 1869
Total Pages: 538
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Published: 1869
Total Pages: 540
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Claire M. L. Bourne
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-06-05
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0192588532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTypographies of Performance in Early Modern England is the first book-length study of early modern English playbook typography. It tells a new history of drama from the period by considering the page designs of plays by Shakespeare and others printed between the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century. It argues that typography, broadly conceived, was used creatively by printers, publishers, playwrights, and other agents of the book trade to make the effects of theatricality—from the most basic (textually articulating a change in speaker) to the more complex (registering the kinesis of bodies on stage)—intelligible on the page. The coalescence of these experiments into a uniquely dramatic typography that was constantly responsive to performance effects made it possible for 'plays' to be marketed, collected, and read in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a print genre distinct from all other genres of imaginative writing. It has been said, 'If a play is a book, it is not a play.' Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England shows that 'play' and 'book' were, in fact, mutually constitutive: it was the very bookishness of plays printed in early modern England that allowed them to be recognized by their earliest readers as plays in the first place.
Author: Ray Alden
Publisher: Audio Amateur Publications
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9781882580453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith this book, anyone can become a speaker builder. You don't need an elaborate workshop, expensive analytical equipment, or sophisticted software. Learn the concepts you need or chhose any of the eleven tested and proven speaker designs included in the book. Contains all the information the speaker builder needs to design and build a first-rate system, one that surpasses higher-cost commercial products.