Slides for April 26 2013 Texas Library Association Presentation by Laurence Musgrove, www.laurencemusgrove.com

1. Is the End of Reading Here?
Laurence Musgrove
Department of English and Modern Languages
Angelo State University
www.laurencemusgrove.com
@lemusgro #endofreading

5. My Contract: $100
1. Feed me
2. Let me sleep on your couch
3. I’ll sell and sign some books

6. The End of Reading
Termination vs. Purpose

7. The End of Reading
I don’t think reading is ending.
I think the purpose of reading is to
promote individual liberty and to lead
us to participate in and preserve
democratic ideals.

8. The End of Reading
HOWEVER,
there are challenges to the reading.
And some come from the place where
reading, liberty, and democracy should
be promoted most successfully.

9. can’t
get into it

10. it’s
hard

11. don’t
get it

12. it’s
boring

13. can’t
make anything
out of it

14. can’t
follow it

15. doesn’t
move me

27. draw a picture
of what happens when you read
#endofreading

35. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of
which we both think and act, is
fundamentally metaphorical in nature.
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
Metaphors We Live By

36. Metaphor is a linguistic equation; an
analogy that compares two unlike things
in order to better understand one or both
of those unlike things.
• “You broke my heart.”
• “I feel down today.”
• “She makes my heart sing.”
• “Call me when you feel up to going
out.”

37. We use metaphors to think and talk about
how we read.

38. metaphors
we read by
see the handout!

46. reading is a bodily experience

53. despair

54. school failure

55. education = commodity

56. know-what
vs.
know-how

57. consumption
&
control

59. resistance to oppressive experiences
in school may be good
even though the consequences
may be unfortunate

61. aesthetic experience
is not transferable

62. no one can read
a book for you

63. reading is the cognitive
embodiment
of individual liberty

65. reading is the cognitive
embodiment
of identification
and association
with others

67. the end of the teaching of reading
should be to provide students
with free and faithful experiences
with books

68. reading is a private and public good
where we learn
with our entire human organ
the privileges and responsibilities
that come with living
in a democratic society

69. choice in texts
and
choice in response

70. Handmade Thinking:
Drawing Out Reading
workshop on guided practice
for promoting
reading engagement and comprehension
through drawing
3:00-4:20 CPE#575

71. Is the End of Reading Here?
Laurence Musgrove
Department of English and Modern Languages
Angelo State University
www.laurencemusgrove.com
@lemusgro #endofreading