Why reading books still matters : the power of literature in digital times / Martha C. Pennington and Robert P. Waxler.
| Author/creator | Pennington, Martha C. author. |
| Other author | Waxler, Robert P., 1944- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | London : Rougledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. |
| Description | 1 online resource (xii, 246 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Value of a Literate Culture; Why We Wrote This Book; How Much and What People Are Reading; Books in the Contemporary World; The Pull Away from Book Culture and the Human Arts, and the Need to Push Back; There Is More to Life; The Education of Children; Our Goals for This Book; Notes; References; 2. A Sketch of Our World, Current and Future; The Human Impact on the World: Degrading the Physical Environment; Degrading the Cultural Environment. |
| Contents | Renewing the Physical World by Strengthening the Cultural World human Arts Sidelined in Education; The Road Ahead: Correcting the Lack of Attention to Literary Culture and Human Arts; The Power of Literary Writing: An Example from Junot Díaz; Notes; References; 3. The Digital World; How the Online Environment Shapes Experience; Exploiting the Sensationalism and Immediacy of Modern Media; Living in the Shadow of the Machine; The Internet as a Technology of Distraction; Life Reduced in the Digital Environment; The World as a Reflection of the Machine; The Need for a Course Correction; Note. |
| Contents | A Short Story That Speaks Volumes: "The Story of an Hour"References; 6. Education and Literacy in Digital Culture; Media Shaping Education; Reading Online and Offline: Effects on Literacy and Education; The New Academic Literacy: Co-opting Our Human Tradition; What Students Are Reading: Written Genre Changes in the Era of Mass Media and the Internet; New Born-Digital Works and the Digital Experiences Replacing Traditional Reading; Notes; 7. How Fiction and Poetry Work Their Magic; Language and Story in Human Life; The Nature of Fiction. |
| Contents | Creating a Story World in the Opening of the Tale of Rip Van Winkle the Nature of Poetry; An Example of a Literary Poem about Trees; Entering the World of Poetic Language and Feeling; An Illustration from a Literary Poem of the Past; The Importance of Literary Poetry and Fiction; A Review of What Literature Does That Makes It Different and Important: Revisiting Our Literary Examples; Notes; References; 8. A Closer Look at Reading; Children Beginning to Read; What Is Reading?; Reading as a Cognitive Process; Reading and Memory; Deep, Connected Reading; The Nature of Literary Reading; Note. |
| Scope and content | "Bringing together strands of public discourse about valuing personal achievement at the expense of social values and the impacts of global capitalism, mass media, and digital culture on the lives of children, this book challenges the potential of science and business to solve the world's problems without a complementary emphasis on social values. The selection of literary works discussed illustrates the power of literature and human arts to instill such values and foster change. The book offers a valuable foundation for the field of literacy education by providing knowledge about the importance of language and literature that educators can use in their own teaching and advocacy work."--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Onlilne resource; title from PDF title page (Ebook Central, viewed November 29, 2017). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Pennington, Martha C. Why reading books still matters. New York, NY : Routledge, 2018 9781138629738 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781315210247 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 131521024X (electronic bk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |