The Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:New York University PressISBN-13:9781479832736ISBN-10:1479832731UPC:9781479832736Book Category:Education, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Special Education, American, Books & ReadingBook Topic:Learning DisabilitiesSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC8NMQM3Q8
How an understanding of intellectual disability transforms the pleasures of reading
Narrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, gauging their "well-formedness" within a couple of years of learning to walk and talk. Some argue that the capacity to understand narrative is innate to our species; others claim that while that might...Language:EnglishPublisher:New York University PressISBN-13:9781479832736ISBN-10:1479832731UPC:9781479832736Book Category:Education, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Special Education, American, Books & ReadingBook Topic:Learning DisabilitiesSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC8NMQM3Q8
Bérubé, Michael: - Michael Bérubé is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Penn State University. In 2012, he served as the President of the Modern Language Association. He is the author of several books, including Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies (NYU Press, 1997), The Left at War (NYU Press,...
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