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1 online resource (x, 199 pages) : illustrations |
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Comparative literature and culture |
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Comparative literature and culture.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-195) and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
New technologies are changing our reading habits. Laptops, e-readers, tablets and other handheld devices supply new platforms for reading, and we must learn to manage them by scrolling, clicking or tapping. Reading Today places reading in current literary and cultural contexts in order to analyse how these contexts challenge our conceptions of who reads, what reading is, how we read, where we read, and for what purposes - and then responds to the questions this analysis raises. Is our reading experience becoming a 'flat' one? And does reading in a media environment favour quick reading? Alongside these questions, the contributors unpack emerging strategies of reading. They consider, for example, how paying attention to readers' emotional reactions as an indispensable component of reading affects our conception of the reading process. Other chapters consider how reading can be explored through such topics as experimental literature, the contemporary encyclopedic novel and the healing power of books. |
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Intro; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; New perspectives on reading: an introduction; Reading difficult texts; Reading in contemporary multimedia environments; Self-recognition in reading; Reading in context; Part I Reading challenges; 1 Reading experimental literature: unreadability, discomfort and reading strategies; Unreadability: its meaning, location and effects; Examples of the unreadable; Reading the unreadable; Conclusion; 2 Information and the illusion of totality:: reading the contemporary encyclopedic novel |
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An artificial semiotic system guided by the electronic machineFraming the systems of knowledge; Reading systems; 3 The brain in our hands:: the materiality of reading Neuromaani; Patient and prescription: on Neuromaani and the materialist approach; Medical background: Neuromaani's history and close relatives; Brain scans: the reader's place(s) in Neuromaani's structure and composition; Metafictional elements of Neuromaani: reading with power tools; Conclusion: the brains are in our hands; 4 Explorative exposure:: media in and of Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves |
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Cybertext theory and House of Leaves's media positionIn the loop; Kinekphrastic intermediality; The ontological cut; Cybertext embedded; Part II New strategies of reading; 5 New reading strategies in the twenty-first century:: transmedia storytelling via app in Marisha Pessl's Night Film; Introduction: changing reading habits in the twenty-first century; The book market, caught in between: electronic versus printed books; Combining novel and app: reading Marisha Pessl's Night Film; Reading Night Film as paperback and e-book; Conclusion: the media threat as an opportunity for the novel |
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6 New reading strategies in print and on digital platforms:: Stephanie Strickland's VThe meandering Vniverse: an ancient goddess and other means of grasping the world; Reading strategies in the digital Vniverse; V as database and vertical reading; Conclusion: the convergences of digital and print V; Part III Reading affectively; 7 Rethinking reading through the novelistic discourses of Don Quixote and Madame Bovary; Don Quixote's influence on Flaubert; Between life and imagination: two misguided readers; The power of suggestion and textual production; Reading and its pleasures |
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The interplay between lived experience and its verbal articulationConclusion; 8 'Emily equals childhood and youth and first love':: Finnish readers and L.M. Montgomery's Anne and Emily books; The girls of New Moon and Green Gables; Fleeting moments of reading; Reading the female Bildungsroman; Conclusion; 9 'The miraculous secret of a good book':: representations of the reading experience in Dutch middlebrow criticism; A short history of middlebrow criticism; Gerard van Eckeren: a middlebrow critic; Representations of the reading experience; Conclusion |
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Books and reading.
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Livres et lecture.
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Cultural studies.
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Economics, finance, business and management.
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Industry and industrial studies.
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Literature and literary studies.
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Media studies.
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Media, information and communication industries.
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Society and culture: general.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Books and reading
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| Added Author |
Pyrhönen, Heta, 1960- editor.
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Kantola, Janna, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reading today. London : UCL Press, 2018 1787351971 (OCoLC)991313285 |
| ISBN |
9781787351950 (electronic bk.) |
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1787351955 (electronic bk.) |
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1787351963 |
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9781787351967 |
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1787351971 |
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9781787351974 |
| Standard No. |
9781787351967 |
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AU@ 000061803036 |
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