But while the scale of the sentences comfortably exceeds the lung capacity of most readers (Cohen isn't afraid to unfurl a five-page sentence), the prose constantly highlights language's sonar qualities: "At lot's edge, last scattered lungs of leaves still hang from the boughs, breathe uneasy".
Will an immersion in digitally-dominated forms of reading change the capacity of the young readers to form and to develop their deep reading processes?
In 1969, Prof Shaw (as he was then) promulgated to a class of student health visitors (of which I was one) lessons from The Uses of Literacy – Richard Hoggart's great exposition of the betrayal of the intentions of the 1870 Education Act, and subsequent devaluation of the intellectual capacity of working-class readers of the popular press.
Based on the relationship between working memory and error detection, we investigated the capacity of adult dyslexic readers' working memory to change as a result of training, and the impact of training on the error detection mechanism.
This is a writer's Haggadah, and its authors seem to believe more than anything in the capacity of language to spur readers to empathic acts: " 'All who are bent with hunger come and eat.' This is one of those strange locutions linguists call a performative," reads one commentary by Goldstein, The uttering of it itself constitutes an act.
The first product of the reduced capacity and stellar cast of readers - Seamus Heaney, Jeremy Irons, Anna Carteret and Dominic West (Jimmy McNulty from The Wire or Oliver Cromwell from The Devil's Whore according to taste), was long queues for returned tickets in sweltering heat.
A similar focus on the capacity of poetry to engage poet and readers in the joint search for meaning in the external world is to be found in the work of poets such as Philippe Jaccottet, Eugène Guillevic, and Michel Deguy.
The use of lexical metaphors here covertly distances the putative readers from the capacity of the Labor Party.
When I looked the word "dummy" up in a dictionary one definition was "pacifier", with the label showing its regional usage as "Brit".Alan ArthurMount Pleasant, South CarolinaRomania's recordSIR – In my dual capacity as faithful reader of your publication and economic counsellor to the prime minister of Romania, I am appalled by the carnivalesque depiction of my country in recent articles.
Alongside Mark Haddon's much more widely praised The Pier Falls Random Housee £12.99), they prove the capacity of a short story to immerse the reader fully in a fictional world.
