Gerald Stanley Lee

The Lost Art of Reading

Published by Good Press, 2019
goodpress@okpublishing.info
EAN 4057664639813

Table of Contents


Book I Interferences with the Reading Habit
The First Interference: Civilisation
The Second Interference: The Disgrace of the Imagination
The Third Interference: The Unpopularity of the First Person Singular
The Fourth Interference: The Habit of Not Letting One’s Self Go
The Fifth Interference: The Habit of Analysis
The Sixth Interference: Literary Drill in College
The Seventh Interference: Libraries. Wanted: An Old-Fashioned Librarian
Book II Possibilities
Book III Details. The Confessions of an Unscientific Mind
I—Unscientific
II—On Reading for Principles
III—Reading Down Through
IV—Reading for Facts
V—Reading for Results
VI—Reading for Feelings
VII—Reading the World Together
Book IV What to Do Next