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Reading Home Cultures Through Books

Author : Kirsti Salmi-Niklander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000538982
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Reading Home Cultures Through Books written by Kirsti Salmi-Niklander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Cultures of Letters

Author : Richard H. Brodhead
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226075266
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (752 download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Letters written by Richard H. Brodhead and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Reading Cultures

Author : Molly Abel Travis
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809321476
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Reading Cultures written by Molly Abel Travis and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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".

Queer Representations

Author : Martin Duberman
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814718833
Total Pages : 719 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Queer Representations written by Martin Duberman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-05 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer Representations celebrates the eclectic, diverse nature of gay and lesbian culture and its production. The volume begins by asking how we can interpret an image--is the image homosexual and if so, how can we understand it? Closely connected to its interpretation is how we visualize homosexuality, or, in Allen Ellenzweig's term, how we picture the homoerotic, the organizing principle of a section devoted to American cinema and performance in general. The crucial role of biography and autobiography is the central preoccupation of the next section, with essays on Radclyffe Hall, Langston Hughes, and Louisa May Alcott. Featuring many of the most respected figures in queer studies and contemporary queer literature, among them Dorothy Allison, Edmund White, Barbara Smith, Essex Hemphill, Michael Cunningham, Allen Ginsberg, Samuel R. Delany, Dale Peck, Jewelle Gomez, Joan Nestle, a final section explores the creation of queer literature, birthpangs, growing pains, and achievements. By emphasizing the interconnectedness of gay and lesbian lives and the literature which has been instrumental in defining, reconstructing, and representing these lives, this anthology serves as a diverse introduction to queer culture and literature.

Reading Cultures

Author : Molly Abel Travis
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809321469
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Reading Cultures written by Molly Abel Travis and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Unlike most reader theorists, Travis is concerned with the agency of the reader. Her conception of agency in reading is informed by performance, psychoanalytic, and feminist 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."

Reading Culture

Author : Diana George
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780321122209
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Reading Culture written by Diana George and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Reading Beyond the Book

Author : Danielle Fuller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135080372
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Reading Beyond the Book written by Danielle Fuller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Reading in a Participatory Culture

Author : Henry Jenkins
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807771252
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Reading in a Participatory Culture written by Henry Jenkins and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the groundbreaking research of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning initiative, this book crosses the divide between digital literacies and traditional print culture to engage a generation of students who can read with a book in one hand and a mouse in the other. Reading in a Participatory Culture tells the story of an innovative experiment that brought together playwright and director Ricardo Pitts-Wiley, Melville scholar Wyn Kelley, and new media scholar Henry Jenkins to develop an exciting new curriculum to reshape the middle- and high-school English language arts classroom. This book offers highlights from the resources developed for teaching Herman Melvilles Moby-Dick and outlines basic principles of design, implementation, and assessment that can be applied to any text.

Reading Culture & Writing Practices in Nineteenth-Century France

Author : Martyn Lyons
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442692030
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Reading Culture & Writing Practices in Nineteenth-Century France written by Martyn Lyons and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-06-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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

Author : Archie L. Dick
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442695080
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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

Download or read book The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures written by Archie L. Dick and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Bronwyn Reddan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040092314
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Social Reading Cultures on BookTube, Bookstagram, and BookTok written by Bronwyn Reddan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Common Ground

Author : Laurie G. Kirszner
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
ISBN 13 : 9780312075866
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Common Ground written by Laurie G. Kirszner and published by Bedford/St. Martin's. This book was released on 1993-11-15 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multicultural reader reflects ethnic, racial, regional, and economic diversity in the United States. The 59 essays are arranged both rhetorically and thematically, with each chapter focusing on both a rhetorical pattern and a cultural theme.

Reading Our Histories, Understanding Our Cultures

Author : Kathleen McCormick
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
ISBN 13 : 9780321123695
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Reading Our Histories, Understanding Our Cultures written by Kathleen McCormick and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Our Histories, Understanding Our Cultures is an innovative cultural studies reader based on the assumption that the life of every person is intimately connected to the life of the culture. By translating the best of current work in cultural studies and process approaches to writing into practical sequenced assignments, it motivates students to develop essential critical thinking, reading, and writing skills. Students are asked to engage in two complementary forms of inquiry consistently throughout the book: "historical analysis," in which they analyze change and continuity over time; and "cultural analysis," in which they explore how and why different perspectives can exist within the same time period. This kind of inquiry is meant to engage students' personal interest and, in the process, to reconceptualize what is thought of as "the personal" within larger social contexts. It enables students to move from writing just "opinion" to writing analytically and persuasively about their own perspectives and those of others. Reading Our Histories, Understanding Our Cultures teaches students to trace how a particular issue is woven into the larger cultural and social fabric, and to negotiate among different perspectives from the past and present to develop a position of their own. This kind of work is where genuine critical inquiry begins.

Cultures of Religious Reading in the Late Middle Ages

Author : Sabrina Corbellini
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Religious Reading in the Late Middle Ages written by Sabrina Corbellini and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read often, learn all that you can. Let sleep overcome you, the roll still in your hands; when your head falls, let it be on the sacred page. - St Jerome, 384 AD With these words, the Church Father Jerome exhorted the young Eustochium to find on the sacred page the spiritual nourishment that would give her the strength to live a life of chastity and to keep her monastic vows. His call to read does not stand alone. Books and reading have always played a pivotal role in early and medieval Christianity, often defined as 'a religion of the book'. A second important stage in the development of the 'religion of the book' can be attested in the late Middle Ages, when religious reading was no longer the exclusive right of men and women living in solitude and concentrating on prayer and meditation. Changes in the religious landscape and the birth of new religious movements transformed the medieval town into a privileged area of religious activity. Increasing literacy opened the door to a new and wider public of lay readers. This seminal transformation in the late medieval cultural horizon saw the growing importance of the vernacular, the cultural and religious emancipation of the laity, and the increasing participation of lay people in religious life and activities. This volume presents a new, interdisciplinary approach to religious reading and reading techniques in a lay environment within late medieval textual, social, and cultural transformations.

Learning Through Literature: Cultures

Author : Concetta Doti Ryan
Publisher : Teacher Created Resources
ISBN 13 : 9781557344748
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Learning Through Literature: Cultures written by Concetta Doti Ryan and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reading Across Cultures

Author : Theresa Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780807735510
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Reading Across Cultures written by Theresa Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of Reading Across Cultures: Teaching Literature in a Diverse Society does not occur without struggle and resistance, and there are no operating instructions for teachers. Instead, these stories and insights from a range of students, teachers and classrooms are offered to continue the conversation about literature, culture and teaching. The book should be an important resource in graduate courses in literacy and children's/YA literature and courses in teaching of literature, as well as for teachers of English.

Encountering Cultures

Author : Richard Holeton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780132763790
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book Encountering Cultures written by Richard Holeton and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encountering Cultures is a composition reader that explores issues of language and culture, domestic cultural diversity, and global cultural diversity with an unprecedented range if reading, authors, and viewpoints. The premise of the second edition, like the first, is that increasing cultural diversity in North America can best be understood in a global, context; the forth-three 'Brief Encounters' and fifty-nine full-length selections emphasize interactions across cultural boundaries of all types, both at home and abroad. The new thematic arrangement of reading and the enhanced editorial apparatus offer a comprehensive view of cultural issues and facilitate a critical thinking approach.