Literary Reading

Author : Danielle Fuller,DeNel Rehberg Sedo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135080372

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Reading Beyond the Book by Danielle Fuller,DeNel Rehberg Sedo Pdf

Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling, and face-to-face and online book groups. This volume offers the first critical analysis of mass reading events and the contemporary meanings of reading in the UK, USA, and Canada based on original interviews and surveys with readers and event organizers. The resurgence of book groups has inspired new cultural formations of what the authors call "shared reading." They interrogate the enduring attraction of an old technology for readers, community organizers, and government agencies, exploring the social practices inspired by the sharing of books in public spaces and revealing the complex ideological investments made by readers, cultural workers, institutions, and the mass media in the meanings of reading.

Author : Michael Burke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136890642

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Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion by Michael Burke Pdf

This work seeks to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. Despite the recent stylistic, linguistic, and cognitive advances that have been made in text-processing methodology and practice, very little is known about this cultural-cognitive process and especially about the role that emotion plays. Burk’s theoretical and empirical study focuses on three central issues: the role emotions play in a core cognitive event like literary text processing; the kinds of bottom-up and top-down inputs most prominently involved in the literary reading process; and what might be happening in the minds and bodies of engaged readers when they experience intense or heightened emotions: a phenomenon sometimes labelled "reader epiphany." This study postulates that there is a free-flow of bottom-up and top-down affective, cognitive inputs during the engaged act of literary reading, and that reading does not necessarily begin or end when our eyes apprehend the words on the page. Burke argues that the literary reading human mind might best be considered both figuratively and literally, not as computational or mechanical, but as oceanic.

Author : David S. Miall
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820486477

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Literary Reading by David S. Miall Pdf

This is the first major book in English on literary reading to be based on empirical methods. Moving the focus away from interpretation to the experience of literary texts, these studies demonstrate the role played by feeling in readers' responses, showing how feeling performs important functions during reading that cannot be accounted for by cognitive understanding. These studies not only reinvigorate the concept of literariness, they are also thoroughly interdisciplinary, offering a coherent approach to literary reading that draws on literary theory, psychology, neuropsychology, and evolutionary psychology. Several chapters help to introduce the empirical approach for students.

Author : Janet Angelillo
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015057019856

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Writing about Reading by Janet Angelillo Pdf

Janet Angelillo introduces us to an entirely new way of thinking about writing about reading. She shows us how to teach students to manage all the thinking and questioning that precedes their putting pen to paper. More than that, she offers us smarter ways to have students write about their reading that can last them a lifetime. She demonstrates how students' responses to reading can start in a notebook, in conversation, or in a read aloud lead to thinking guided by literary criticism reflect deeper text analysis and honest writing processes result in a variety of popular genres--book reviews, author profiles, commentaries, editorials, and the literary essay. She even includes tools for teaching-day-by-day units of study, teaching points, a sample minilesson, and lots of student examples-plus chapters on yearlong planning and assessment. Ensure that your students will be readers and writers long after they leave you. Get them enthused and empowered to use whatever they read-facts, statistics, the latest book--as fuel for writing in school and in their working lives. Read Angelillo.

Author : Alice Jolly
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783521609

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Dead Babies and Seaside Towns by Alice Jolly Pdf

WINNER OF THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2016 'Beautifully written and brutally honest' Sunday Times 'Her account is astonishingly moving and her prose nothing short of hypnotic' Independent When Alice Jolly's second child was stillborn and all subsequent attempts to have another baby failed, she began to consider every possible option, no matter how unorthodox. Shot through with humour and full of hope, Dead Babies and Seaside Towns is an intensely personal account of the search for an alternative way to create a family. As she battles through miscarriage, IVF and failed adoption attempts, Alice finds comfort in the faded charm of Britain's crumbling seaside towns. The journey ultimately leads her and her husband to a small town in Minnesota, and to two remarkable women who offer to make the impossible possible. In this beautifully written book, Alice Jolly describes with a novelist's skill the events that many others have lived through – even if they may feel compelled to keep them hidden. Her decision not to hide but to share them, without a trace of self-pity, turns Dead Babies and Seaside Towns into a universal story: one that begins in tragedy but ends in joy.

Author : Katherine Bode
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780857284549

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Reading by Numbers by Katherine Bode Pdf

'Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field' is the first book to use digital humanities strategies to integrate the scope and methods of book and publishing history with issues and debates in literary studies. By mining, visualising and modelling data from 'AustLit' - an online bibliography of Australian literature that leads the world in its comprehensiveness and scope - this study revises established conceptions of Australian literary history, presenting new ways of writing about literature and publishing and a new direction for digital humanities research. The case studies in this book offer insight into a wide range of features of the literary field, including trends and cycles in the gender of novelists, the formation of fictional genres and literary canons, and the relationship of Australian literature to other national literatures.

Author : Peter Brooker,Peter Widdowson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317903567

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A Practical Reader in Contemporary Literary Theory by Peter Brooker,Peter Widdowson Pdf

This introduction to practicing literary theory is a reader consisting of extracts from critical analyses, largely by 20th century Anglo-American literary critics, set around major literary texts that undergraduate students are known to be familiar with. It is specifically targeted to present literary criticism through practical examples of essays by literary theorists themselves, on texts both within and outside the literary canon. Four example essays are included for each author/text presented.

Author : Liz Worth
Publisher : Guernica Editions
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781550713435

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Amphetamine Heart by Liz Worth Pdf

This edited volume brings together scholars positioned in and outside of China, including former Chinese journalists, in a comprehensive and in-depth study of Chinese investigative journalistse(tm) dreams, work practices, and strategies. It is the first book that systematically addresses the roles and values of Chinese investigative journalists in different types of media, in the process addressing topics such as journalism education, different generations and sub-groups among investigative journalists, and gendered roles within investigative journalism. The book discusses journalistse(tm) relations with the state and issues of political control and censorship but seeks to unpack the state by looking at different administrative levels, institutions and geographical locations. Furthermore, the authors acknowledge and analyze how investigative journalism today is shaped, constrained and negotiated through contacts with other actors than the state, including companies, civil society, and the audience. The book sheds light on the possibilities and restrictions for more critical journalism in an authoritarian regime.

Author : Liz Worth
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781770410671

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Treat Me Like Dirt by Liz Worth Pdf

Originally published: Montreal: Bongo Beat, 2009.

Author : C. van Tiel,M. G. van Neck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : English literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433076077936

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The Literary Reading Book by C. van Tiel,M. G. van Neck Pdf

Author : Walter Taylor Field,Ella Flagg Young
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1916-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465517982

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The Young and Field Literary Readers by Walter Taylor Field,Ella Flagg Young Pdf

Once upon a time there was a little princess. Her name was Ellen. She lived with her mother the queen in a great house by the sea. She had three brothers. One day, as they were playing ball, one of her brothers threw the ball over the house. Ellen ran to get it, but she did not come back. The three brothers looked for her. They looked and looked, but they could not find her. Day after day went by. At last the oldest brother went to a wise man and asked what to do. "The princess is with the elves. She is in the Dark Tower," said the wise man. "Where is the Dark Tower?" asked the oldest brother. "It is far away," said the wise man. "You cannot find it." "I can and I will find it. Tell me where it is," said the oldest brother. The wise man told him, and the oldest brother set off at once. The other brothers waited. They waited long, but the oldest brother did not come back. Then the next brother went to the wise man. The wise man told him as he had told the oldest brother. Then the next brother set out to find the Dark Tower. The youngest brother waited. He waited long, but no one came. Now the youngest brother was called Childe Rowland.

Author : Benj. N. Martin
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547308553

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Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader by Benj. N. Martin Pdf

Choice Specimens of American Literature is a slightly political literary textbook for students to learn more about classic American writers and their works. Excerpt: "It seemed unnecessary to treat the female writers as a distinct class; they are, therefore, arranged under the departments to which they respectively belong, as Essayists, Novelists, Poets."

Author : Simone Murray
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421426099

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The Digital Literary Sphere by Simone Murray Pdf

Drawing on approaches from literary studies, media and cultural studies, book history, cultural policy, and the digital humanities, this book asks: What is the significance of authors communicating directly to readers via social media? How does digital media reframe the “live” author-reader encounter? And does the growing army of reader-reviewers signal an overdue democratizing of literary culture or the atomizing of cultural authority? In exploring these questions, The Digital Literary Sphere takes stock of epochal changes in the book industry while probing books’ and digital media’s complex contemporary coexistence.

Author : Tobias Menely,Jesse Oak Taylor
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271080390

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Anthropocene Reading by Tobias Menely,Jesse Oak Taylor Pdf

Few terms have garnered more attention recently in the sciences, humanities, and public sphere than the Anthropocene, the proposed epoch in which a human “signature” appears in the lithostratigraphic record. Anthropocene Reading considers the implications of this concept for literary history and critical method. Entering into conversation with geologists and geographers, this volume reinterprets the cultural past in relation to the anthropogenic transformation of the Earth system while showcasing how literary analysis may help us conceptualize this geohistorical event. The contributors examine how a range of literary texts, from The Tempest to contemporary dystopian novels to the poetry of Emily Dickinson, mediate the convergence of the social institutions, energy regimes, and planetary systems that support the reproduction of life. They explore the long-standing dialogue between imaginative literature and the earth sciences and show how scientists, novelists, and poets represent intersections of geological and human timescales, the deep past and a posthuman future, political exigency and the carbon cycle. Accessibly written and representing a range of methodological perspectives, the essays in this volume consider what it means to read literary history in the Anthropocene. Contributors include Juliana Chow, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Thomas H. Ford, Anne-Lise François, Noah Heringman, Matt Hooley, Stephanie LeMenager, Dana Luciano, Steve Mentz, Benjamin Morgan, Justin Neuman, Jennifer Wenzel, and Derek Woods.

Author : Antony Easthope
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134919970

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Literary into Cultural Studies by Antony Easthope Pdf

Modern Literary study was founded on an opposition between the canon and its other , popular culture. The theory wars of the 1970s and the 1980s and, in particular, the advent of structuralist and post structuralist theory, transformed this relationship. With `the death of literature', the distinction between high and popular culture was no longer tenable, and the field of inquiry shifted from literary into cultural studies. Anthony Easthope argues that this new discipline must find a methodological consensus for its analysis of canonical and popular texts. Through a detailed criticism of competing theories (British cultural studies, New Historicism, cultural materialism) he shows how this new study should - and should not be done. Easthope's exploration of the problems, possibilities and politics of this new discipline includes an original reassessment of the question of literary value. By contrasting Conrad's Heart of Darkness with Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes, Easthope demonstrates how textuality sustains the opposition between high and popular culture darkness.