Health & Personal Development
Reading
by Philip Davis, Fiona Magee
Description
Can reading literature really help our mental health? This book shows how and why - not by instruction or prescription but by emotion and exploration.
Offering case histories of individual readers and reading groups based on the work of The Reader, a charity dedicated to bringing serious literature to neglected communities, the authors showcase how a whole new demographic might get into reading, and in doing so unlock the emotional intelligence and benefits to health and wellbeing which come from our access to written human stories and imagined situations.
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Author Biography
Philip Davis is Emeritus Professor of Literature and Psychology at the University of Liverpool, UK and was the director of CRILS (Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society).
Fiona Magee combines the three main strands of this book: research into literary reading, the compilation of interviews and films of case histories, and the practice of shared reading.
Emerald Publishing Ltd.
Emerald Publishing was founded in 1967 to champion new ideas that would advance the research and practice of business and management. Today, we continue to nurture fresh thinking in applied fields where we feel we can make a real difference, now also including health and social care, education and engineering.
View all titlesBibliographic Information
- Publication Date October 2020
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781838673086
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 19.99 USD
- Pages184
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusUnpublished
- Copyright Year2020
- Dimensions216 x 138 mm
- SeriesArts for Health
