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Robert A. Stebbins

The Committed Reader

Reading for Utility, Pleasure, and Fulfillment in the Twenty-First Century

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Committed utilitarian reading is either dominantly practical or more or less equally practical and fulfilling. Pleasurable reading is conceptualized as an important kind of casual leisure, experienced primarily as relaxation, active entertainment, and sexual stimulation (racy, pornographic stories). Such reading can also be a launching pad for day-dreams or lively conversation. Self-fulfilling reading is explored in a disquisition on the liberal arts hobbies. This is no place for speed reading, but instead is where we care to pause often to appreciate the artistry of the writing, creativity of the plot, profundity of the message (i.e., the in… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8108-8596-7
  • EAN: 9780810885967
  • Produktnummer: 19613911
  • Verlag: Scarecrow Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
  • Seitenangabe: 162 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.9 cm 245 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 245

Über den Autor


Robert A. Stebbins, FRSC, is Faculty Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary. He has written over 225 articles and chapters and written or edited 41 books, including recent titles The Idea of Leisure: First Principles; Serious Leisure: A Perspective for Our Time; Personal Decisions in the Public Square: Beyond Problem Solving into a Positive Sociology; Leisure and Consumption: Common Ground/Separate Worlds; and Social Entrepreneurship for Dummies. Stebbins was elected Fellow of the Academy of Leisure Sciences in 1996, the Royal Society of Canada in 1999, and the World Leisure Academy in 2010.

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