Part One. Approaches -- Reading & Questioning: What Texts Say and Suggest; What They Show and Do -- and How -- Reading for the Truth: Experiencing, Interpreting, and Evaluating What and How We Read -- Part Two. Applications -- Reading Nonfiction: Essays, Ideas and the Pleasures of Conversation -- Reading Fiction: Laboratories for the Creation of the Self -- Part Three. Uses -- Paradoxical Pleasures of Reading: Dialectical Energies -- Reading for Your Life: How Reading Is Intertwined With Living -- Coda. 9 Recommended Reading Practices -- Appendix A. Print & Digital Reading -- Appendix B. What to Read & Why.
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