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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - When Edward J. O'Brien asked me to
cooperate with him in choosing each year's best English short
stories, to be published as a companion volume to his annual
selection of the best American short stories, I had not realized
that at the end of my arduous task, which has involved the reading
of many hundreds of stories in the English magazines of an entire
year, I should find myself asking the simple question: What is a
short story? I do not suppose that a hundred years ago such a
question could have occurred to any one. Then all that a story was
and could be was implied in the simple phrase: "Tell me a
story...." We all know what that means. How many stories published
today would stand this simple if final test of being told by word
of mouth? I doubt whether fifty per cent would. Surely the
universality of the printing press and the linotype machine have
done something to alter the character of literature, just as the
train and the telephone have done not a little to abolish polite
correspondence. Most stories of today are to be read, not told.
Hence great importance must be attached to the manner of writing;
in some instances, the whole effect of a modern tale is dependent
on the manner of presentation. Henry James is, possibly, an extreme
example.
Inferencing is defined as 'the act of deriving logical conclusions
from premises known or assumed to be true', and it is one of the
most important processes necessary for successful comprehension
during reading. This volume features contributions by distinguished
researchers in cognitive psychology, educational psychology, and
neuroscience on topics central to our understanding of the
inferential process during reading. The chapters cover aspects of
inferencing that range from the fundamental bottom-up processes
that form the basis for an inference to occur, to the more
strategic processes that transpire when a reader is engaged in
literary understanding of a text. Basic activation mechanisms,
word-level inferencing, methodological considerations, inference
validation, causal inferencing, emotion, development of inferences
processes as a skill, embodiment, contributions from neuroscience,
and applications to naturalistic text are all covered as well as
expository text, online learning materials, and literary immersion.
During the last 20 years, there has been an enormous amount of
research examining sources of coherence in reading. A major tenet
of this work has been the distinction between two major sources of
coherence. "Text-based" sources of coherence are contained within
the text itself -- use of headings to indicate aspects of a text's
macrostructure; "reader-based" sources of coherence encompass the
information and strategies that the reader brings to the
comprehension process. Many early models of reading comprehension
emphasized text-based sources of coherence as a way of
understanding how a representation of the text is constructed in
memory. However, during the last decade, there has been a clear
shift of theoretical perspective away from viewing reading
comprehension as a process of representing a text to viewing
comprehension as a process of representing what a text is about.
This has led to a greater emphasis on reader-based sources of
coherence. The purpose of this book is to bring together the large
body of evidence addressing the roles of text-based and
reader-based sources of coherence in reading comprehension. The
contributors present the current state of cognitive theory and
research on comprehension of discourse.
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Hell (Paperback)
Henri Barbusse; Translated by Edward J. O'Brien
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R388
Discovery Miles 3 880
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Out of stock
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This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.
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