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The Gist of Reading (Paperback)
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The Gist of Reading (Paperback)
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What happens to books as they live in our long-term memory? Why do
we find some books entertaining and others not? And how does
literary influence work on writers in different ways? Grounded in
the findings of empirical psychology, this book amends classic
reader-response theory and attends to neglected aspects of reading
that cannot be explained by traditional literary criticism. Reading
arises from a combination of two kinds of mental work: automatic
and controlled processes. Automatic processes, such as the ability
to see visual symbols as words, are the result of constant
practice; controlled processes, such as predicting what might occur
next in a story, arise from readers' conscious use of skills and
background knowledge. When we read, automatic and controlled
processes work together to create the "gist" of reading, the
constant interplay between these two kinds of processes. Andrew
Elfenbein not only explains how we read today, but also uses
current knowledge about reading to consider readers of past
centuries, arguing that understanding gist is central to
interpreting the social, psychological, and political impact of
literary works. The result is the first major revisionary account
of reading practices in literary criticism since the 1970s.
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