The Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read

by Michael Bérubé

Book Overview

How an understanding of intellectual disability transforms the pleasures of reading

Narrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, gauging their "well-formedness" within a couple of years of learning to walk and talk. Some argue that the capacity to understand narrative is innate to our species; others claim that while that might be so, the invention of writing then...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479823619
• ISBN13: 9781479823611
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.3"