Plotting The Reading Experience

Author : Paulette M. Rothbauer,Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad,Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie,Knut Oterholm
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781771121750

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Plotting the Reading Experience by Paulette M. Rothbauer,Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad,Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie,Knut Oterholm Pdf

This book is about the experience of reading–what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read and under what conditions, what drives people to read, and, conversely, what halts the individual in the pursuit of the pleasures of reading. The authors consider reading in all of its richness as they explore readers' relationships with diverse textual and digital forms. This edited volume is divided into three sections: Theory, Practice, and Politics. The first provides insights into ways of seeing, thinking, and conceptualizing the experience of reading. The second features a variety of individual and social practices of reading. The third explores the political and ethical aspects of the reading experience, raising questions about the role that reading plays in democracy and civic participation. With contributions from multidisciplinary scholars from around the world, this book provides provocative insights into what it means to be a reader reading in and across various social, cultural, and political contexts. Its unifying theme of the reader's experience of reading is put into dialogue with theories, practices, and politics, making this a rewarding read for graduate students, faculty, researchers, and librarians working across a range of academic fields.

Author : Lynne McKechnie,Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad,Knut Oterholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Reading
ISBN : 1771121734

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Plotting the Reading Experience by Lynne McKechnie,Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad,Knut Oterholm Pdf

This book is about the experience of reading what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read and under what conditions, what drives people to read, and, conversely, what halts the individual in the pursuit of the pleasures of reading. The authors consider reading in all of its richness as they explore readers relationships with diverse textual and digital forms. This edited volume is divided into three sections: Theory, Practice, and Politics. The first provides insights into ways of seeing, thinking, and conceptualizing the experience of reading. The second features a variety of individual and social practices of reading. The third explores the political and ethical aspects of the reading experience, raising questions about the role that reading plays in democracy and civic participation. With contributions from multidisciplinary scholars from around the world, this book provides provocative insights into what it means to be a reader reading in and across various social, cultural, and political contexts. Its unifying theme of the reader s experience of reading is put into dialogue with theories, practices, and politics, making this a rewarding read for graduate students, faculty, researchers, and librarians working across a range of academic fields. "

Author : Simon R. Frost
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438483535

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Reading, Wanting, and Broken Economics by Simon R. Frost Pdf

Combining historical study, theorization, and experimental fiction, this book takes commodity culture and book retail around 1900 as the prime example of a market of symbolic goods. With the port of Southampton, England, as his case study, Simon R. Frost reveals how the city's bookshops, with their combinations of libraries, haberdashery, stationery, and books, sustained and were sustained by the dreams of ordinary readers, and how together they created the values powering this market. The goods in this market were symbolic and were not "consumed" but read. Their readings were created between other readers and texts, in happy disobedience to the neoliberal laws of the free market. Today such reader-created social markets comprise much of the world's branded economies, which is why Frost calls for a new understanding of both literary and market values.

Author : Catherine Sheldrick Ross,Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie,Paulette M. Rothbauer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781440855771

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Reading Still Matters by Catherine Sheldrick Ross,Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie,Paulette M. Rothbauer Pdf

Drawing on scholarly research findings, this book presents a cogent case that librarians can use to work towards prioritization of reading in libraries and in schools. Reading is more important than it has ever been—recent research on reading, such as PEW reports and Scholastic's "Kids and Family Reading Report," proves that fact. This new edition of Reading Matters provides powerful evidence that can be used to justify the establishment, maintenance, and growth of pleasure reading collections, both fiction and nonfiction, and of readers' advisory services. The authors assert that reading should be woven into the majority of library activities: reference, collection building, provision of leisure materials, readers' advisory services, storytelling and story time programs, adult literacy programs, and more. This edition also addresses emergent areas of interest, such as e-reading, e-writing, and e-publishing; multiple literacies; visual texts; the ascendancy of young adult fiction; and fan fiction. A new chapter addresses special communities of YA readers. The book will help library administrators and personnel convey the importance of reading to grant-funding agencies, stakeholders, and the public at large. LIS faculty who wish to establish and maintain courses in readers' advisory will find it of particular interest.

Author : Heather Cardona
Publisher : Grey Star Publishing, LLC
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Planning, Plotting, & Producing Your Series by Heather Cardona Pdf

Author : Maria Engberg,Iben Have,Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000829129

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The Digital Reading Condition by Maria Engberg,Iben Have,Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen Pdf

This volume offers a critical overview of digital reading practices and scholarly efforts to analyze and understand reading in the mediatized landscape. Building on research about digital reading, born-digital literature, and digital audiobooks, The Digital Reading Condition explores reading as part of a broader cultural shift encompassing many forms of media and genres. Bringing together research from media and literary studies, digital humanities, scholarship on reading and learning, as well as sensory studies and research on multimodal and multisensory media reception, the authors address and challenge print-biased conceptions of reading that are still prevalent in research, whether the reading medium is print or digital. They argue that the act of reading itself is changing, and rather than rejecting digital media as unsuitable for sustained or focused reading practices, they argue that the complex media landscape challenges us to rethink how to define reading as a mediated practice. Presenting a truly interdisciplinary perspective on digital reading practices, this volume will appeal to scholars and graduate students in communication, media studies, new media and technology, literature, digital humanities, literacy studies, composition, and rhetoric.

Author : Suzanne Keen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137439598

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Narrative Form by Suzanne Keen Pdf

This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions.

Author : S. Keen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230503489

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Narrative Form by S. Keen Pdf

This handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction. Beginning with a survey of major theorists and approaches, and using clearly defined terms, Narrative Form explains critical vocabulary and offers a variety of strategies for analyzing the formal qualities of fiction. Keen suggests that interpretations of form can be effectively integrated with contemporary approaches to literature, including feminist, postcolonial, and cultural studies methodologies. Narrative Form shows how to use the language of formal analysis accurately and innovatively.

Author : Evelyn Arizpe,Gabrielle Cliff Hodges
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351966405

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Young People Reading by Evelyn Arizpe,Gabrielle Cliff Hodges Pdf

The value of small-scale qualitative research projects into young people’s reading is often underestimated. Yet these finely tuned studies, with a precise focus and highly specialised approach, can provide us with profound insights into the richness and variety of young people’s reading practices. Bringing together contributors from six continents, this fascinating volume explores researchers’ experiences of investigating the reading habits, preferences and practices of young people aged 12–21. Detailing a variety of empirical methodologies and research methods, its chapters also consider reading in an array of contexts, in various languages and using diverse media. Key issues addressed in the book include: the complexity of sociocultural similarities and differences in young people’s reading in international contexts multilingual, bilingual and monolingual readers’ experiences of reading how young readers use a range of different print and digital media how our understanding of the range of texts available to young readers and the different contexts of and purposes for reading can be enhanced through small-scale qualitative research. Providing in-depth discussion of contributors’ research and findings, and touching on many different contexts, text types and media, this volume will support and inspire current and future researchers, lecturers and teachers interested in young people’s reading.

Author : Hilary P. Dannenberg
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803217617

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Coincidence and Counterfactuality by Hilary P. Dannenberg Pdf

In Coincidence and Counterfactuality, a groundbreaking analysis of plot, Hilary P. Dannenberg sets out to answer the perennial question of how to tell a good story. While plot is among the most integral aspects of storytelling, it is perhaps the least studied aspect of narrative. Using plot theory to chart the development of narrative fiction from the Renaissance to the present, Dannenberg demonstrates how the novel has evolved over time and how writers have developed increasingly complex narrative strategies that tap into key cognitive parameters familiar to the reader from real-life experience. ø Dannenberg proposes a new, multidimensional theory for analyzing time and space in narrative fiction, then uses this theory to trace the historical evolution of narrative fiction by focusing on coincidence and counterfactuality. These two key plot strategiesøare constructed around pivotal moments when characters? life trajectories, or sometimes the paths of history, converge or diverge. The study?s rich historical and textual scope reveals how narrative traditions and genres such as romance and realism or science fiction and historiographic metafiction, rather than being separated by clear boundaries are in fact in a continual process of interaction and cross-fertilization. In highlighting critical stages in the historical development of narrative fiction, the study produces new readings of works by pinpointing the innovative role played by particular authors in this evolutionary process. Dannenberg?s original investigation of plot patterns is interdisciplinary, incorporating research from narrative theory, cognitive approaches to literature, social psychology, possible worlds theory, and feminist approaches to narrative.

Author : Sandrine Sorlin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350062986

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Stylistic Manipulation of the Reader in Contemporary Fiction by Sandrine Sorlin Pdf

This book focuses on how readers can be 'manipulated' during their experience of reading fictional texts and how they are incited to perceive, process and interpret certain textual patterns. Offering fine-grained stylistic analysis of diverse genres, including crime fiction, short stories, poetry and novels, the book deciphers various linguistic, pragmatic and multimodal techniques. These are skilfully used by authors to achieve specific effects through a subtle manipulation of deixis, metalepsis, dialogue, metaphors, endings, inferences or rhetorical, narratorial and typographical control. Exploring contemporary texts such as The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Remains of the Day and We Need to Talk About Kevin, chapters delve into how readers are pragmatically positioned or cognitively (mis)directed as the author guides their attention and influences their judgment. They also show how readers' responses can, conversely, bring about a certain form of manipulation as readers challenge the positions the texts invite them to occupy.

Author : James Scott Bell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781582976846

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Write Great Fiction - Plot & Structure by James Scott Bell Pdf

Craft an Engaging Plot How does plot influence story structure? What's the difference between plotting for commercial and literary fiction? How do you revise a plot or structure that's gone off course? With Write Great Fiction: Plot & Structure, you'll discover the answers to these questions and more. Award-winning author James Scott Bell offers clear, concise information that will help you create a believable and memorable plot, including: • Techniques for crafting strong beginnings, middles, and ends • Easy-to-understand plotting diagrams and charts • Brainstorming techniques for original plot ideas • Thought-provoking exercises at the end of each chapter • Story structure models and methods for all genres • Tips and tools for correcting common plot problems Filled with plot examples from popular novels, comprehensive checklists, and practical hands-on guidance, Write Great Fiction: Plot & Structure gives you the skills you need to approach plot and structure like an experienced pro.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438113890

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Great Expectations - Charles Dickens by Harold Bloom Pdf

Possibly Dickens's greatest novelistic achievement.

Author : Teresa Cremin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000774696

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Teaching English Creatively by Teresa Cremin Pdf

What does it mean to teach English creatively to primary school children? Teaching English Creatively encourages and enables teachers to adopt a more creative approach to the teaching of English in the primary school. Fully updated to reflect the changing UK curricula, the third edition of this popular text explores research-informed practice and offers new ideas to imaginatively engage readers, writers, speakers and listeners. Underpinned by up-to-date theory and research and illustrated throughout with more examples of children’s work, it examines the core elements of creative practice and how to explore powerful literary, non-fiction, visual and digital texts creatively. Key themes addressed include: • Developing creativity in and through talk and drama • Creatively engaging readers and writers • Teaching grammar and comprehension imaginatively and in context • Profiling meaning and purpose, autonomy, collaboration and play • Planning, reviewing and celebrating literacy learning • Ensuring the creative involvement of the teacher Inspiring, accessible and connected to current challenges and new priorities in education, Teaching English Creatively puts contemporary and cutting-edge practice at the forefront and includes a wealth of innovative ideas to enrich English teaching. Written by an experienced author with extensive experience of initial teacher education and English teaching in the primary school, it is an invaluable resource for any teacher who wishes to embed creative approaches to teaching in their classroom.

Author : Eva Dolan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408886625

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This Is How It Ends by Eva Dolan Pdf

Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month The Times Crime Book of the Month Mail on Sunday Thriller of the Week 'Elegantly crafted, humane and thought-provoking. She's top drawer' Ian Rankin This is how it begins. With a near-empty building, the inhabitants forced out of their homes by property developers. With two women: idealistic, impassioned blogger Ella and seasoned campaigner, Molly. With a body hidden in a lift shaft. But how will it end?