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[Commlist] New book: How to Read Like You Mean It

Wed Sep 13 14:46:45 GMT 2023





Kyle Conway likes to draw your attention to a newly published, open access book:

Title: How to Read Like You Mean It, by Kyle Conway
AU Press
9781771993746 (paperback)
9781771993753 (pdf)
9781771993760 (epub)
https://www.aupress.ca/books/120316-how-to-read-like-you-mean-it/

Publisher’s description:

In this candid and concise volume, Kyle Conway, author of The Art of Communication in a Polarized World, considers how we can open ourselves to others and to ideas that scare us by reading difficult texts. Conway argues that because we resist ideas we don’t understand, we must embrace confusion as a constitutive part of understanding and meaningful exchange, whether between a reader and a text or between two people.

Building on the work of hermeneutics scholar Paul Ricoeur, Conway evaluates the recurring paradox of miscommunication 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, Conway introduces readers to the idea that it is through uncertainty that we can gain access to new and meaningful worlds—those of texts and other people.

Table of contents:

List of Figures and Tables
Preface: How to Read This Book
Acknowledgements
Introduction: What Is Reading?
1. To Read Is to Feel Lost
2. To Read Is to Wander
3. To Read Is to Feel Love
4. To Read Is to Be Free
Conclusion: To Read Is to Live with Other People
References
Index


About the Author

Kyle Conway is an associate professor of communication at the University of Ottawa. He has published widely on communication and translation, including the books The Art of Communication in a Polarized World (2020), Little Mosque on the Prairie and the Paradoxes of Cultural Translation (2017) and Everyone Says No: Public Service Broadcasting and the Failure of Translation (2011).


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