How to Read Like You Mean It - Couverture souple

Conway, Kyle

 
9781771993746: How to Read Like You Mean It
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 177199374X ISBN 13 : 9781771993746
Editeur : AU Press, 2023

Synopsis

This candid, concise volume explores how we can open ourselves up to the ideas and people that scare us by reading difficult texts.

Author Kyle Conway argues that because we resist ideas we don't understand, we must embrace confusion as a fundamental ingredient for meaning and exchange, whether between a reader and a text or between two people. Through evaluating the paradox of miscommunication, Conway posits that it's uncertainty that results in deeper understanding and proposes strategies for reading that will allow individuals to give up the illusion of certainty.

In elegant and compelling prose, How to Read Like You Mean It introduces readers to the idea that it is through ambiguity that we can gain access to new, profound worlds--those of texts and other people.

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À propos de l?auteur

Kyle Conway is associate professor of communication at the University of Ottawa. His other books include The Art of Communication in a Polarized World, Little Mosque on the Prairie and the Paradoxes of Cultural Translation, and Everyone Says No.

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Éditeur
AU Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
177199374X
ISBN 13 
9781771993746
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
168
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Personne responsable
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