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Reading Home Cultures Through Books

Kirsti Salmi-Niklander,Marija Dalbello

Author : Kirsti Salmi-Niklander,Marija Dalbello
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000538984

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This wide-ranging, comparative, and multidisciplinary collection addresses the significance of books in creating the idea of home. The chapters present cases that reveal the affective and sensory dimensions of books and reading in the practice of everyday life of individuals, in communities, and in society. The complex relationship of books, reading, and home is explored through American and European case studies both in bourgeois and middle-class homes, and in working-class and immigrant families and communities with limited possibilities for reading. The volume combines the conceptions and representations of domesticity, the materiality of reading, and library as a place, drawing on book history and material culture studies as well as anthropology and sociology of the home.

Reading Cultures

Molly Abel Travis

Author : Molly Abel Travis
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0809321475

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Molly Abel Travis unites reader theory with an analysis of historical conditions and various cultural contexts in this discussion of the reading and reception of twentieth-century literature in the United States. Travis moves beyond such provisional conclusions as "the text produces the reader" or "the reader produces the text" and considers the ways twentieth-century readers and texts attempt to constitute and appropriate each other at particular cultural moments and according to specific psychosocial exigencies. She uses the overarching concept of the reader in and out of the text both to differentiate the reader implied by the text from the actual reader and to discuss such in-and-out movements that occur in the process of reading as the alternation between immersion and interactivity and between role playing and unmasking. Most reader theorists fix on the product of reading and exclude the process, Travis notes, which means they necessarily focus on the text. Even theorists who argue for the reader's resistance make the text so determinant that they conceive of text and reader as discrete entities in a closed universe, with these entities exerting force and counterforce respectively. Missing in these accounts are "wave" and "field" theories concerned with such dynamic and contrastive effects as changes in the art of literary reading over historical periods and differences among readers in the context of a cultural field. Travis seeks to fill gaps in current reader theories by focusing on process and difference. Unlike most reader theorists, Travis is concerned with the agency of the reader. Her conception of agency in reading is informed by performance, psychoanalytic, andfeminist theories. This agency involves compulsive, reiterative performance in which readers attempt to find themselves by going outside the self -- engaging in literary role playing in the hope of finally and fully identifying the self through self-differentiation. Furthermore, readers never escape a social context; they are both constructed and actively constructing in that they read as part of interpretive communities and are involved in collaborative creativity or what Kendall Walton calls "collective imagining".

The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures

Archie L. Dick

Author : Archie L. Dick
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442695085

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The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures shows how the common practice of reading can illuminate the social and political history of a culture. This ground-breaking study reveals resistance strategies in the reading and writing practices of South Africans; strategies that have been hidden until now for political reasons relating to the country's liberation struggles. By looking to records from a slave lodge, women's associations, army education units, universities, courts, libraries, prison departments, and political groups, Archie Dick exposes the key works of fiction and non-fiction, magazines, and newspapers that were read and discussed by political activists and prisoners. Uncovering the book and library schemes that elites used to regulate reading, Dick exposes incidences of intellectual fraud, book theft, censorship, and book burning. Through this innovative methodology, Dick aptly shows how South African readers used reading and books to resist unjust regimes and build community across South Africa's class and racial barriers.

Social Reading Cultures on BookTube, Bookstagram, and BookTok

Bronwyn Reddan,Leonie Rutherford,Amy Schoonens,Michael Dezuanni

Author : Bronwyn Reddan,Leonie Rutherford,Amy Schoonens,Michael Dezuanni
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040092316

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Social Reading Cultures on BookTube, Bookstagram, and BookTok by Bronwyn Reddan,Leonie Rutherford,Amy Schoonens,Michael Dezuanni Pdf

This book examines the reading cultures developed by communities of readers and book lovers on BookTube, Bookstagram, and BookTok as an increasingly important influence on contemporary book and literary culture. It explores how the affordances of social media platforms invite readers to participate in social reading communities and engage in creative and curatorial practices that express their identity as readers and book lovers. The interdisciplinary team of authors argue that by creating new opportunities for readers to engage in social reading practices, bookish social media has elevated the agency and visibility of readers and book consumers within literary culture. It has also reshaped the cultural and economic dynamics of book recommendations by creating a space in which different actors are able to form an identity as mediators of reading culture. Concise and accessible, this introduction to an increasingly central set of literary practices is essential reading for students and scholars of literature, sociology, media, and cultural studies, as well as teachers and professionals in the book and library industries.

Reading Culture

Diana George,John Trimbur

Author : Diana George,John Trimbur
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0321122208

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The original cultural studies reader, this essay collection is widely used for its provocative readings and images on relevant cultural issues and for its outstanding pedagogy. Written by two respected composition theorists, Reading Culture truly makes use of cultural studies methods from analyzing texts and historical documents, to conducting fieldwork and mini ethnographies. The first cultural studies reader to also address visual literacy, the text includes over 100 images of posters, advertisements, photos, and art to accompany and illustrate the readings or as "Visual Essays" and "Visual Culture" segments that stand on their own. The fifth edition enhances that coverage with an appealing new four color format and full color art throughout the text. Helping students gain the necessary critical thinking skills to observe and analyze cultural phenomena, the opening chapter introduces reading and writing strategies and features a case study-new to this edition-that shows students how to "read" culture. Always up to date, this edition represents a significant revision with several new readings, themes, and visual images.

THE READING CULTURE OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY

Edward D. Andrews

Author : Edward D. Andrews
Publisher : Christian Publishing House
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781949586848

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THE READING CULTURE OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY provides the reader with the production process of the New Testament books, the publication process, how they were circulated, and to what extent they were used in the early Christian church. It examines the making of the New Testament books, the New Testament secretaries and the material they used, how the early Christians viewed the New Testament books, and the literacy level of the Christians in the first three centuries. It also explores how the gospels went from an oral message to a written record, the accusation that the apostles were uneducated, the inspiration and inerrancy in the writing process of the New Testament books, the trustworthiness of the early Christian copyists, and the claim that the early scribes were predominantly amateurs. Andrews also looks into the early Christian’s use of the codex [book form], how did the spread of early Christianity affect the text of the New Testament, and how was the text impacted by the Roman Empire’s persecution of the early Christians?

Reading Culture

Pramod K Nayar

Author : Pramod K Nayar
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 076193474X

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The theory, methods and politics of cultural studies are examined in this book which is concerned with the ways in which public culture reflects the relations between identities, race, gender and class. Adapting a range of theories and approaches, the author demonstrates how a cultural form effectively disseminates meanings - a political act - by marginalizing certain identities, norms, modes of thinking and knowledges while valuing others. The book covers topics as diverse as comic book superheroes, patriotic songs in Hindi films, the projection of ′authenticity′ in tourist brochures and the poetics of display in museums.

Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire

William A. Johnson

Author : William A. Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199884209

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In Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire, William Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in second-century Rome. The investigation proceeds in case-study fashion using the principal surviving witnesses, beginning with the communities of Pliny and Tacitus (with a look at Pliny's teacher, Quintilian) from the time of the emperor Trajan. Johnson then moves on to explore elite reading during the era of the Antonines, including the medical community around Galen, the philological community around Gellius and Fronto (with a look at the curious reading habits of Fronto's pupil Marcus Aurelius), and the intellectual communities lampooned by the satirist Lucian. Along the way, evidence from the papyri is deployed to help to understand better and more concretely both the mechanics of reading, and the social interactions that surrounded the ancient book. The result is a rich cultural history of individual reading communities that differentiate themselves in interesting ways even while in aggregate showing a coherent reading culture with fascinating similarities and contrasts to the reading culture of today.

Girls, Texts, Cultures

Clare Bradford,Mavis Reimer

Author : Clare Bradford,Mavis Reimer
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771120227

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Girls, Texts, Cultures by Clare Bradford,Mavis Reimer Pdf

This book focuses on girls and girlhoods, texts for and about girls, and the cultural contexts that shape girls’ experience. It brings together scholars from girls’ studies and children’s literature, fields that have traditionally conducted their research separately, and the collaboration showcases the breadth and complexity of girl-related studies. Contributors from disciplines such as sociology, literature, education, and gender studies combine these disciplinary approaches in novel ways with insights from international studies, postcolonial studies, game studies, and other fields. Several of the authors engage in activist and policy-development work around girls who experience poverty and marginalization. Each essay is concerned in one way or another with the politics of girlhood as they manifest in national and cultural contexts, in the everyday practices of girls, and in textual ideologies and agendas. In contemporary Western societies girls and girlhood function to some degree as markers of cultural reproduction and change. The essays in this book proceed from the assumption that girls are active participants in the production of texts and cultural forms; they offer accounts of the diversity of girls’ experience and complex significances of texts by, for, and about girls.

The emergence of Finnish book and reading culture in the 1700s

Cecilia af Forselles,Tuija Laine

Author : Cecilia af Forselles,Tuija Laine
Publisher : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789522227805

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Book culture has emerged as an extremely dynamic and border-crossing field of research, internationally and in Finland. The editors and most of the writers of this book were members of the organizing and program committees of the 18th Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), Book Culture from Below, that took place in Helsinki in 2010. This book provides, for the first time in English, an overview of an important epoch in Finnish book and reading history. Besides depicting book culture at the periphery of Europe, it contributes to our understanding of the power of the urbanized European literary world of the 1700s. The new reading culture that emerged in Finland during the 1700s affected readers and all levels of society in many ways. Along with other trends, the arrival of translated fiction and Enlightenment literature from Europe opened and irrevocably altered the Finns’ world view. The change was especially pronounced in cities. Scholars, merchants, craftspersons, as well as military officers stationed at Helsinki’s offshore Sveaborg fortress, acquired world literature and guides intended for professionals at, for example, book auctions. In this book, researchers from different fields examine the significance and influence of that era’s books from cultural, historical, ideological, and social perspectives. What kinds of books did the citizens of Helsinki really buy, loan, and read during the 1700s? What topics and ideas introduced by the new literature were discussed in salons and reading circles? Who were the books’ large-scale consumers? Who were the literary opinion leaders of their times? Why did people read? Did the books change their readers’ lives?

Reading Culture & Writing Practices in Nineteenth-Century France

Martyn Lyons

Author : Martyn Lyons
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442692039

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Between about 1830 and the outbreak of the First World War, print culture, reading, and writing transformed cultural life in Western Europe in many significant ways. Book production and consumption increased dramatically, and practices such as letter- and diary-writing were widespread. This study demonstrates the importance of the nineteenth century in French cultural change and illustrates the changing priorities and concerns of l'histoire du livre since the 1970s. From the 1830s on, book production experienced an industrial revolution which led to the emergence of a mass literary culture by the close of the century. At the same time, the western world acquired mass literacy. New categories of readers became part of the reading public while western society also learned to write. Reading Culture and Writing Practices in Nineteenth-Century France examines how the concerns of historians have shifted from a search for statistical sources to more qualitative assessments of readers' responses. Martyn Lyons argues that autobiographical sources are vitally important to this investigation and he considers examples of the intimate and everyday writings of ordinary people. Featuring original and intriguing insights as well as references to material hitherto inaccessible to English readers, this study presents a form of 'history from below' with emphasis on the individual reader and writer, and his or her experiences and perceptions.

Reading Beyond the Book

Danielle Fuller,DeNel Rehberg Sedo

Author : Danielle Fuller,DeNel Rehberg Sedo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,7 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.

Cultures of Letters

Richard H. Brodhead

Author : Richard H. Brodhead
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0226075265

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Richard H. Brodhead uses a great variety of historical sources, many of them considered here for the first time, to reconstruct the institutionalized literary worlds that coexisted in nineteenth-century America: the middle-class domestic culture of letters, the culture of mass-produced cheap reading, the militantly hierarchical high culture of the post-Civil War decades, and the literary culture of post-emancipation black education. Moving across a range of writers familiar and unfamiliar, and relating groups of writers often considered in artificial isolation, Brodhead describes how these socially structured worlds of writing shaped the terms of literary practice for the authors who inhabited them.

Everyday Readers

Ian Collinson

Author : Ian Collinson
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UOM:39015080856548

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This title combines a number of different academic approaches in order to better understand the complex nature of readers' everyday encounters with their books.

Reading Culture and Writing Practices in Nineteenth-century France

Martyn Lyons

Author : Martyn Lyons
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802093578

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Reading Culture and Writing Practices in Nineteenth-century France by Martyn Lyons Pdf

Between about 1830 and the outbreak of the First World War, print culture, reading, and writing transformed cultural life in Western Europe in many significant ways. Book production and consumption increased dramatically, and practices such as letter- and diary-writing were widespread. This study demonstrates the importance of the nineteenth century in French cultural change and illustrates the changing priorities and concerns of l'histoire du livre since the 1970s. From the 1830s on, book production experienced an industrial revolution which led to the emergence of a mass literary culture by the close of the century. At the same time, the western world acquired mass literacy. New categories of readers became part of the reading public while western society also learned to write. Reading Culture and Writing Practices in Nineteenth-Century France examines how the concerns of historians have shifted from a search for statistical sources to more qualitative assessments of readers' responses. Martyn Lyons argues that autobiographical sources are vitally important to this investigation and he considers examples of the intimate and everyday writings of ordinary people. Featuring original and intriguing insights as well as references to material hitherto inaccessible to English readers, this study presents a form of 'history from below' with emphasis on the individual reader and writer, and his or her experiences and perceptions.

Reading Cultures

Reading Home Cultures Through Books by Kirsti Salmi-Niklander,Marija Dalbello Pdf

Reading Cultures by Molly Abel Travis Pdf

The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures by Archie L. Dick Pdf

Social Reading Cultures on BookTube, Bookstagram, and BookTok by Bronwyn Reddan,Leonie Rutherford,Amy Schoonens,Michael Dezuanni Pdf

Reading Culture by Diana George,John Trimbur Pdf

THE READING CULTURE OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY by Edward D. Andrews Pdf

Reading Culture by Pramod K Nayar Pdf

Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire by William A. Johnson Pdf

Girls, Texts, Cultures by Clare Bradford,Mavis Reimer Pdf

The emergence of Finnish book and reading culture in the 1700s by Cecilia af Forselles,Tuija Laine Pdf

Reading Culture & Writing Practices in Nineteenth-Century France by Martyn Lyons Pdf

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

Cultures of Letters by Richard H. Brodhead Pdf

Everyday Readers by Ian Collinson Pdf

Reading Culture and Writing Practices in Nineteenth-century France by Martyn Lyons Pdf

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