Reading for Life av Philip (Emeritus Professor of English Literature formerly Director of CRILS (Centre for Research into Reading Literature and Socie

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Reading for Life is an anthology of poems and of extracts from prose fiction, related to a series of case-histories of individuals carefully reading, discussing their reading lives, and thinking about the relation of literature to their existence. It enables readers to gain increased imaginative access to the works in question through seeing how they have intensely affected equivalent readers¿a novelist, a poet, a doctor, a teacher, an anthologist, but alsonon-specialists, ordinary people within shared reading groups in many different settings, finding help from literary texts in times of often painful personal need. It is the story of the work done by Philip Davis'' research unit, the Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society (CRILS), at theUniversity of Liverpool, in a ten-year partnership with the outreach charity The Reader, taking serious literature to often neglected communities and struggling individuals through the shared reading¿alive and aloud¿of literature fro