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

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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