Example sentences of "[prep] reading as [art] " in BNC.

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1 I want to argue , however , readers use their knowledge of reading as a socially differentiated practice to make sense of texts .
2 Much of the promise of an encounter between Hughea and Shakespeare , then , derives from the sense of a coming together and culmination of two formative experiences of the idea of literature ; of reading as a testing activity .
3 Goodman substantiates his view of reading as a ‘ psycholinguistic guessing game ’ ( 1972 ) with accounts of children who managed to battle their way through unfamiliar syntax and uncertain word recognition to some kind of understanding of the text .
4 Although he found that teachers used many different strategies in helping children , individuals tended to employ a limited range of reinforcements and corrections according to whether they thought of reading as a " word-recognition skill " or a " meaning-getting process " .
5 We can not entertain the simplistic notion of reading as a process which proceeds by decoding the message , in real time , from one level to another .
6 In Chapter 3 of Allegories of Reading de Man focuses on an episode from A la Recherche du Temps Perdu in which Marcel reflects upon the virtues of reading as a retreat from the outside world .
7 Ingarden defines the act of reading as the ‘ realization ’ of the work which is accomplished as the reader progressively fills in the ‘ spots of indeterminacy ’ in it ( 1931:246–54 ) .
8 Heavy going for reading as a skill .
9 It is not so much a book for reading as a book to which reference can confidently be made both on general matters and on points of detail .
10 By looking in detail at the different responses this process elicited , I want to raise some questions about reading as a specific social activity .
11 Despite its drawbacks the book is worth reading as a useful guide to recent developments .
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