The Edge of the Precipice
Why Read Literature in the Digital Age?
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2013
232 pages
978-0-7735-8987-2 (ISBN)
Description
Kafka wrote that a book should be an axe to break the frozen sea within us: does that idea resonate with readers today?
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Socken Paul:
Paul Socken is distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of French Studies at the University of Waterloo.Paul Socken is distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of French Studies at the University of Waterloo.
Paul Socken is distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of French Studies at the University of Waterloo.Paul Socken is distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of French Studies at the University of Waterloo.
Content
- Cover
- The Edge of the Precipice
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: A Return to the Educated Imagination
- Technology, Science, and the Book
- Why I Read War and Peace on a Kindle (and Bought the Book When I Was Done)
- Reading in a Digital Age: Notes on Why the Novel and the Internet Are Opposites, and Why the Latter Both Undermines the Former and Makes It More Necessary
- Solitary Reading in an Age of Compulsory Sharing
- Literature and the World (Part One)
- Literature as Virtual Reality
- How Molière and Co. Helped Me Get My Students Hooked on Literature
- Physical and Philosophical Approaches
- A World without Books?
- Language Speaks Us: Sophie's Tree and the Paradox of Self
- Poetic Readings
- The End of Reading
- Cold Heaven, Cold Comfort: Should We Read or Teach Literature Now?
- Fragments from an Entirely Subjective Story of Reading
- A Very Good Chance of Getting Somewhere Else
- Literature and the World (Part Two)
- Thinking Deeply in Reading and Writing
- Don't Panic: Reading Literature in the Digital Age
- Why Read against the Grain? Confessions of an Addict
- About the Authors
- Index
