In Bed with the Word: Reading, Spirituality, and Cultural Politics - Softcover

Coleman, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0888645074 ISBN 13: 9780888645074

Publisher: University of Alberta Press, 2009

Synopsis

While reading is a deeply personal activity, paradoxically, it is also fundamentally social and outward-looking. Daniel Coleman, a lifelong reader and professor of literature, combines story with meditation to reveal this paradox and illustrate why, more than ever, we need this special brand of "quiet time" in our lives. In Bed with the Word sparks with every conceivable enticement for those who worry about living in a culture of distraction and who long to reconnect with something deeper.

About this title

Book Description:

A study on why we need reading and the spiritual and cultural politics.

From the Back Cover:

Front cover: In Bed with the Word Daniel Coleman Spine: Coleman In Bed with the Word Front Flap: "Reading is not solely an exercise to feed one's inner life. Rather, eating the book -- not just nibbling at it, or having a little taste here and there, but eating it wholesale -- produces a changed person, an empowered person, a different kind of person, and changed people means social and political change, too, not just personal change." Daniel Coleman Back flap: Daniel Coleman was born and raised in Ethiopia and came to Canada to go to college. After BEd and MA degrees from the University of Regina, and a PhD from the University of Alberta, he went on to teach Canadian and Diasporic literatures in the Department of English at McMaster University. He has written The Scent of Eucalyptus, a memoir about his youth, and in 2007 he won the Raymond Klibansky Prize for the best English-language book in the Humanities for White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada. Back cover: While reading is a deeply personal activity, paradoxically, it is also fundamentally social and outward-looking. Daniel Coleman combines story with meditation to reveal this paradox and to illustrate why, more than ever, we need this special brand of "quiet time" in our lives. In Bed with the Word is the perfect companion for those who worry about living in a culture of distraction and who long to reconnect with something deeper. "This is a rare manuscript. In my view it has perfect pitch, a generous openness, and makes demands on the reader that are eagerly engaged by the lively mind. In style, content, and argument, it is lovely." --David J. Goa, Director of the Chester Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public Life The University of Alberta Press ISBN: 978-0-88864-507-4 Printed in Canada Price $19.95 in Canada Book design by Alan Brownoff www.uap.ualberta.ca

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0888645074
• ISBN 13: 9780888645074
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 141