On Reading Well

Author : Karen Swallow Prior
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493415465

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On Reading Well by Karen Swallow Prior Pdf

★ Publishers Weekly starred review A Best Book of 2018 in Religion, Publishers Weekly Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue, says acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior. In this book, she takes readers on a guided tour through works of great literature both ancient and modern, exploring twelve virtues that philosophers and theologians throughout history have identified as most essential for good character and the good life. Covering authors from Henry Fielding to Cormac McCarthy, Jane Austen to George Saunders, and Flannery O'Connor to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Prior explores some of the most compelling universal themes found in the pages of classic books, helping readers learn to love life, literature, and God through their encounters with great writing. The book includes end-of-chapter reflection questions geared toward book club discussions, original artwork throughout, and a foreword by Leland Ryken. The hardcover edition was named a Best Book of 2018 in Religion by Publishers Weekly. "[A] lively treatise on building character through books.'"--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Author : Karen Swallow Prior
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400206261

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Fierce Convictions by Karen Swallow Prior Pdf

With a foreword by Eric Metaxas, best-selling author of Bonhoeffer and Amazing Grace. The enthralling biography of the woman writer who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain’s upper classes, and taught a nation how to read. The history-changing reforms of Hannah More affected every level of 18th-Century British society through her keen intellect, literary achievements, collaborative spirit, strong Christian principles, and colorful personality. A woman without connections or status, More took the world of British letters by storm when she arrived in London from Bristol, becoming a best-selling author and acclaimed playwright and quickly befriending the author Samuel Johnson, the politician Horace Walpole, and the actor David Garrick. Yet she was also a leader in the Evangelical movement, using her cultural position and her pen to support the growth of education for the poor, the reform of morals and manners, and the abolition of Britain’s slave trade. Fierce Convictions weaves together world and personal history into a stirring story of life that intersected with Wesley and Whitefield’s Great Awakening, the rise and influence of Evangelicalism, and convulsive effects of the French Revolution. A woman of exceptional intellectual gifts and literary talent, Hannah More was above all a person whose faith compelled her both to engage her culture and to transform it.

Author : Karen Swallow Prior,Charlotte Brontë
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781087731063

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Jane Eyre by Karen Swallow Prior,Charlotte Brontë Pdf

Jane Eyre. Frankenstein. The Scarlet Letter. You’re familiar with these pillars of classic literature. You have seen plenty of Frankenstein costumes, watched the film adaptations, and may even be able to rattle off a few quotes, but do you really know how to read these books? Do you know anything about the authors who wrote them, and what the authors were trying to teach readers through their stories? Do you know how to read them as a Christian? Taking into account your old worldview, as well as that of the author? In this beautiful cloth-over-board edition bestselling author, literature professor, and avid reader Karen Swallow Prior will guide you through Jane Eyre. She will not only navigate you through the pitfalls that trap readers today, but show you how to read it in light of the gospel, and to the glory of God. This edition includes a thorough introduction to the author, context, and overview of the work (without any spoilers for first-time readers), the full original text, as well as footnotes and reflection questions throughout to help the reader attain a fuller grasp of Jane Eyre. The full series currently includes: Heart of Darkness, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Eyre, and Frankenstein. Make sure to keep an eye out for the next classics in the series.

Author : Karen Swallow Prior
Publisher : T. S. Poetry Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Classical literature
ISBN : 0692014543

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Booked by Karen Swallow Prior Pdf

"Ever wished you'd had a teacher who made you want to read the classics? Your wish has come true in this beautifully-told book. Karen Swallow Prior movingly and honestly tells a compelling story of self-discovery and coming to faith through some of the greatest books ever written"--P.4 of cover.

Author : Robert DiYanni
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780691206776

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You Are What You Read by Robert DiYanni Pdf

How you can enrich your life by becoming a more skillful and engaged reader of literature We are what we read, according to Robert DiYanni. Reading may delight us or move us; we may read for instruction or inspiration. But more than this, in reading we discover ourselves. We gain access to the lives of others, explore the limitless possibilities of human existence, develop our understanding of the world around us, and find respite from the hectic demands of everyday life. In You Are What You Read, DiYanni provides a practical guide that shows how we can increase the benefits and pleasures of literature by becoming more skillful and engaged readers. DiYanni suggests that we attend first to what authors say and the way in which they say it, rather than rushing to decide what they mean. He considers the various forms of literature, from the essay to the novel, the short story to the poem, demonstrating rewarding approaches to each in sample readings of classic works. Through a series of illuminating oppositions, he explores the paradoxical pleasures of reading: solitary versus social reading, submitting to or resisting the author, reading inwardly or outwardly, and more. DiYanni closes with nine recommended reading practices, thoughts on the different experiences of print and digital reading, and advice on what to read and why. Written in a clear, inviting, and natural style, You Are What You Read is an essential guide for all who want to enrich their reading—and their life.

Author : Karen Swallow Prior
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111839358

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Hannah More's Coelebs in Search of a Wife by Karen Swallow Prior Pdf

This work provides both an introduction to the genre of the didactic religious novel and the culture of evangelicalism that was developing halfway through Hannah More's life, reaching its full flowering at about the time of her death in 1833.

Author : Jerry Camery-Hoggatt
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780687642755

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Reading the Good Book Well by Jerry Camery-Hoggatt Pdf

A delightful and engaging entré into understanding how to read and interpret the Bible

Author : Leland Ryken,Glenda Mathes
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781433564307

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Recovering the Lost Art of Reading by Leland Ryken,Glenda Mathes Pdf

A Christian Perspective on the Joys of Reading Reading has become a lost art. With smartphones offering us endless information with the tap of a finger, it's hard to view reading as anything less than a tedious and outdated endeavor. This is particularly problematic for Christians, as many find it difficult to read even the Bible consistently and attentively. Reading is in desperate need of recovery. Recovering the Lost Art of Reading addresses these issues by exploring the importance of reading in general as well as studying the Bible as literature, offering practical suggestions along the way. Leland Ryken and Glenda Faye Mathes inspire a new generation to overcome the notion that reading is a duty and instead discover it as a delight.

Author : Alan Jacobs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 019983167X

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The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs Pdf

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 books, however, suggest that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Many have absorbed the puritanical message that reading is, first and foremost, good for you--the intellectual equivalent of eating your Brussels sprouts. For such people, indeed for all readers, Jacobs offers some simple, powerful, and much needed advice: read at whim, read what gives you delight, and do so without shame, whether it be Stephen King or the King James Version of the Bible. In contrast to the more methodical approach of Mortimer Adler's classic How to Read a Book (1940), Jacobs offers an insightful, accessible, and playfully irreverent guide for aspiring readers. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of approaching literary fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, and the book explores everything from the invention of silent reading, reading responsively, rereading, and reading on electronic devices. Invitingly written, with equal measures of wit and erudition, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction will appeal to all readers, whether they be novices looking for direction or old hands seeking to recapture the pleasures of reading they first experienced as children.

Author : C. John Collins
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310598589

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Reading Genesis Well by C. John Collins Pdf

What does it mean to be a good reader of Genesis 1-11? What does it mean to take these ancient stories seriously and how does that relate to taking them literally? Can we even take any of this material seriously? Reading Genesis Well answers these questions and more, promoting a responsible conversation about how science and biblical faith relate by developing a rigorous approach to interpreting the Bible, especially those texts that come into play in science and faith discussions. This unique approach connects the ancient writings of Genesis 1-11 with modern science in an honest and informed way. Old Testament scholar C. John Collins appropriates literary and linguistic insights from C. S. Lewis and builds on them using ideas from modern linguistics, such as lexical semantics, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics. This study helps readers to evaluate to what extent it is proper to say that the Bible writers held a "primitive" picture of the world, and what function their portrayal of the world and its contents had in shaping the community.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780684859071

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How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom Pdf

Bloom, the best-known literary critic of our time, shares his extensive knowledge of and profound joy in the works of a constellation of major writers, including Shakespeare, Cervantes, Austen, Dickinson, Melville, Wilde, and O'Connor in this eloquent invitation to readers to read and read well.

Author : David Baldacci
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759520127

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Wish You Well by David Baldacci Pdf

Following a family tragedy, siblings Lou and Oz must leave New York and adjust to life in the Virginia mountains--but just as the farm begins to feel like home, they'll have to defend it from a dark threat in this New York Times bestselling coming-of-age story. Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains. Suddenly Lou finds herself growing up in a new landscape, making her first true friend, and experiencing adventures tragic, comic, and audacious. When a dark, destructive force encroaches on her new home, her struggle will play out in a crowded Virginia courtroom...and determine the future of two children, an entire town, and the mountains they love.

Author : Joshua Gibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0999146637

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How to Be Unlucky by Joshua Gibbs Pdf

Author : Regie Routman
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X004664501

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Reading Essentials by Regie Routman Pdf

In this easy-to-read and research-based text, Regie Routman provides clarity, support, specific demonstrations, and confidence to teachers so they can teach reading well and get high test scores too - regardless of the reading program they use. Detailed lessons, immediately doable ideas, teaching tips, and lots of practical suggestions make this an essential text for excellent and enjoyable teaching and learning.

Author : Laurie Blass,Mindy Pasternak,Elisaveta Wrangell
Publisher : OXFORD University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03
Category : English language
ISBN : 0194761061

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Well Read by Laurie Blass,Mindy Pasternak,Elisaveta Wrangell Pdf

Brings reading to life with engaging texts, key strategies, and effective teacher support.