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This is a study of the psychological development of readers of
fictional stories across the whole lifespan. The author argues that
regardless of personality and background, readers go through a
regular sequence of stages as they mature from childhood to
adulthood, which affects how they experience and respond to
stories. Each subsequent stage requires an advance to a way of
thinking about a story which is qualitatively different from the
previous one. Appleyard's evidence for these claims is drawn from
numerous studies of reading and from interviews with readers of all
ages. The developmental perspective provides a useful framework for
assessing the implications of competing theories of reading, for
charting the evolution of young readers as they mature, and for
locating and understanding the varied responses of adult readers.
Literary theorists, teachers of reading and literature at every
level, developmental psychologists, and general readers interested
in the power of reading should find this a useful book.
Becoming a Reader argues that, whatever our individual differences
of personality and background, there is a regular sequence of
attitudes we go through as we mature, which affect how we
experience fiction, from the five-year-old child absorbed in the
world of fantasy play, through the seventeen year old critical
seeker of the truth, to the middle-aged reader recognizing their
own experiences in fictional characters. Becoming a Reader argues
that this sequence of responses can be worked out and described.
The evidence for these claims is drawn from numerous studies of
reading and from interviews with a great many readers, young and
old. The developmental perspective provides a useful framework for
assessing the implications of competing theories of reading and for
charting the evolution of individual readers. Finally, in allowing
us to predict our reading experience, the book allows us, as
adults, to choose what to do with the power which reading gives us.
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