The Role of the Reader

Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253203182
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Discusses the differences between "open" and "closed" texts, or, texts that actively involve the reader and texts that evoke a limited, predetermined response from the reader. -- Back cover.

The Reader

Author: Bernhard Schlink
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375726977
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany. "A formally beautiful, disturbing and finally morally devastating novel." —Los Angeles Times When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover—then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.

The Open Work

Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674639768
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
This book is significant for its concept of "openness"--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--and for its anticipation of two themes of literary theory: the element of multiplicity and plurality in art, and the insistence on literary response as an interaction between reader and text.

The Limits of Interpretation

Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253208699
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
Presents four theories describing the limits of literary interpretation, challenging "the cancer of uncontrolled interpretation" that diminishes the meaning and the basis of communication. -- Back cover.

If I Was Your Girl

Author: Meredith Russo
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250078407
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Amanda Hardy only wants to fit in at her new school, but she is keeping a big secret, so when she falls for Grant, guarded Amanda finds herself yearning to share with him everything about herself, including her previous life as Andrew.

A Companion to Translation Studies

Author: Sandra Bermann
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118616154
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 796

Book Description
This companion offers a wide-ranging introduction to the rapidly expanding field of translation studies, bringing together some of the best recent scholarship to present its most important current themes Features new work from well-known scholars Includes a broad range of geo-linguistic and theoretical perspectives Offers an up-to-date overview of an expanding field A thorough introduction to translation studies for both undergraduates and graduates Multi-disciplinary relevance for students with diverse career goals

Reconnecting Reading and Writing

Author: Alice S. Horning
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
ISBN: 1602354626
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
Reconnecting Reading and Writing explores the ways in which reading can and should have a strong role in the teaching of writing in college. Reconnecting Reading and Writing draws on broad perspectives from history and international work to show how and why reading should be reunited with writing in college and high school classrooms. It presents an overview of relevant research on reading and how it can best be used to support and enhance writing instruction.

Girl in Translation

Author: Jean Kwok
Publisher: Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
ISBN: 9781594487569
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 293

Book Description
Emigrating with her mother from Hong Kong to Brooklyn, Kimberly Chang begins a secret double life as an exceptional schoolgirl during the day and sweatshop worker at night, an existence also marked by a first crush and the pressure to save her family from poverty. A first novel.

The Science of Reading

Author: Margaret J. Snowling
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470757639
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 680

Book Description
The Science of Reading: A Handbook brings together state-of-the-art reviews of reading research from leading names in the field, to create a highly authoritative, multidisciplinary overview of contemporary knowledge about reading and related skills. Provides comprehensive coverage of the subject, including theoretical approaches, reading processes, stage models of reading, cross-linguistic studies of reading, reading difficulties, the biology of reading, and reading instruction Divided into seven sections:Word Recognition Processes in Reading; Learning to Read and Spell; Reading Comprehension; Reading in Different Languages; Disorders of Reading and Spelling; Biological Bases of Reading; Teaching Reading Edited by well-respected senior figures in the field

The Freedom to Read

Author: American Library Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 16

Book Description