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The pleasures of reading in an age of distraction / / Alan Jacobs



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Autore: Jacobs Alan <1958-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The pleasures of reading in an age of distraction / / Alan Jacobs Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (171 p.)
Disciplina: 028/.8
Soggetto topico: Reading
Self-culture
Study skills
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction; AN ESSAY ON SOURCES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Sommario/riassunto: In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way. In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers, reading is alive and well in America. There are millions of devoted readers supporting hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Oprah's Book Club is hugely influential, and a recent NEA survey reveals an actual uptick in the reading of literary fiction. Jacobs's interactions with his students and the readers of his own b
Titolo autorizzato: The pleasures of reading in an age of distraction  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-983167-X
1-283-09817-2
9786613098177
0-19-983038-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825464603321
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