Reading Biblio

What's Next?

Perhaps I should start with what is next because I think that is what is the next step for me. I need to start writing. I need to start forming ideas and really start going at it. It is hard for me to put down all these sources with the intention that I really just need to start writing so that I know what I have and what I need. As I started nailing down sources, I still need to make sure everything stays with awe. I need to make sure my end means connect with the beginning means of awe. I also need to find other sources probably more specifically about reading and awe separately. Most of all, I just need to find some motivation. I'm feeling there only being 18 more days of my undergraduate career. 

Annotated Bibliography 

Atwell, Nancie. The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers. New York: Scholastic, 2007. Print. 

Nancie discusses how she gets student into reading. The most helpful parts are where she defines reading and more specifically defines the “reading zone.”

Belluck, Pam. "For Better Social Skills, Scientists Recommend a Little Chekhov." The New York Times. The New York Times, 3 Oct. 2013. Web. 20 Mar. 2014. <http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/i-know-how-youre-feeling-i-read-chekhov/>.

Discusses the connecting power of reading. Reading can open your mind to other situations and help you to understand and feel for others.

Birkerts, Sven. "Reading and Depth of Field." Philosophy and Literature 1996: 122-9. Print.

Discusses the “interior space” that we make when we read. Also discusses some of what Coleridge has said about reading.

Freud, Sophie. "The Reading Cure: Books as Lifetime Companions." American Imago 61.1 (2004): 77-87. ProQuest. Web. 20 Mar. 2014.

Discusses how she has connected to reading and made reading a part of her life. Discusses how reading has been healing.

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. On the Way to Language. Eds. Martin Heidegger and translated by Peter D. Hertz. 1st Harper & Row pbk. ed. ed. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982. Print. Unterwegs Zur Sprache.

Discusses how language is the primal manifestation of “being.”  Looks at this “nature of being” with an analysis of the origin, nature, and significance of language.

Morrison, Blake. "The Reading Cure." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 05 Jan. 2008. Web. 20 Mar. 2014. <http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jan/05/fiction.scienceandnature>.

Looks at how reading can emotionally and physically heal us. Connects this to what Plato has said.

Paul, Annie Murphy. "Your Brain on Fiction." The New York Times. The New York Times, 17 Mar. 2012. Web. 20 Mar. 2014. <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-neuroscience-of-your-brain-on-fiction.html>.

Looks at how good reading stays with you after you finish the book. Your brain is still active in the same regions.

Romano, Tom. "Relationships with Literature." English Education 1998: 5-23. Print.

Looks at peoples’ personal relationship to reading and how preservice teachers should reflect on this.

Rosenblatt, Louise M. “The Literary Experience.” Literature as Exploration. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1995. Web. 19 Jan 2014. 

Where I am drawing a lot of definition of reading. Also, looks at reading as an experience which is what I want to tie directly to awe.

Sumara, Dennis J. "Fictionalizing Acts: Reading and the Making of Identity." Theory into Practice 1998: 203-10. Print.

Reading creates identities because readers have to shape the meaning of the text which is affected by their experience.

---. "A Topography of Reading." English Education 1997: 227-45. Print.

Through reading the same books, the text can be a commonplace. We create shared experiences that we can connect together through.  

Very Rough Working Thesis:

Reading creates an experience like that of awe which thus has the same affects as awe. These effects create readers because they return to this cycle of awe. 

perhaps... 

Through returning to the cycle, reading changes us through healing and creating a universal connection. 

Obviously my thesis is weak and need help. but that's where my "what's next" comes in