Author : Lee Emerson Bassett
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332349985
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (499 download)
Book Synopsis A Handbook of Oral Reading (Classic Reprint) by : Lee Emerson Bassett
Download or read book A Handbook of Oral Reading (Classic Reprint) written by Lee Emerson Bassett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Handbook of Oral Reading The greater part of the literature read in schools belongs to that class of writing which De Quincey calls the litera ture of power, as distinguished from the literature of mere knowledge. The literature of knowledge treats of facts as such; the literature of power holds and moves and inspires men by virtue of its truth, its beauty, its imagination, and its feeling. It tells us how men think and feel and how they relate themselves to other men and to the world in which they live. Obviously one who reads with full understanding must exercise the imagination and the sympathies, and must hold them subject to the influence of what he reads. New experiences are thus made his through contact with the thought and experience of the author and, as when Keats heard Chapman speak out loud and bold, a larger world extending beyond the little circle of his everyday life, it opened to him. But the range and power of such literature are seldom realized by the student until he hears it read aloud, or he himself attempts to express its thought and Spirit. The printed word is given reality and life when it is uttered by the living voice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.