Carmen Callil, Nicholas Carr, Jane Davis, Mark Haddon, Blake Morrison, Tim Parks, Michael Rosen, Zadie Smith, Jeanette Winterson, Maryanne Wolf and Mirit Barzillai, Stop What You're Doing And Read This!
Stop What You’re Doing and Read This! is a collection of ten essays published by Vintage in 2011. In the publisher’s words, the book is a ‘manifesto’ exhorting people to make reading part of their daily lives. Too few people read today and too many are dissatisfied, anxious and isolated. Reading, a...
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| الحاوية / القاعدة: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ebc, |
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| التنسيق: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| اللغة: | Anglais |
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Études britanniques contemporaines
2015
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | Stop What You’re Doing and Read This! is a collection of ten essays published by Vintage in 2011. In the publisher’s words, the book is a ‘manifesto’ exhorting people to make reading part of their daily lives. Too few people read today and too many are dissatisfied, anxious and isolated. Reading, all ten authors argue, turns out to be more than necessary in a fast-moving, fragmented, and technology-obsessed society and this is what the essays set out to demonstrate.Although they all share a ... |
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