E-Book, Englisch, 590 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: Cultural Sociology
The Meanings of Reading and Books Across the World
E-Book, Englisch, 590 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: Cultural Sociology
ISBN: 978-3-031-13227-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
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Introduction María Angélica Thumala Olave.-
Part I. The project of a cultural sociology of reading
.- Chapter 1. “Reading matters. A cultural sociology of reading” María Angélica Thumala Olave.-
Part II. Reading, books and texts as iconic experience
.- Chapter 2. “The Felt Value of Reading Zines” Ash Watson and Andy Bennett.- Chapter 3. “Between self and other: Anäis Nin’s transformative erotics” Jessica Widner.- Chapter 4. “Knowing through Feeling: The Aesthetic Structure of a Novel and the Iconic Experience of Reading” Jan Vâna.- Chapter 5. “Book love. A cultural sociological interpretation of the attachment to books” María Angélica Thumala Olave.-
Part III. Literary value, evaluation and cultural intermediaries
.- Chapter 6. “Spatial Reading: Evaluative Frameworks and the Making of Literary Authority” Günther Leypoldt.- Chapter 7. “Readers and Reviewers: A Symbiotic Knot” Phillipa Chong.- Chapter 8. “The Courage to Continue: Reading and Motivating Intellectual Labors at University Presses” Joshua Silver.- Chapter 9. “Reviewing Strategies and the Normalization of Uncertain Texts” Álvaro Santana Acuña.- Chapter 10. “Customer reviews of 'highbrow' literature: a comparative reception study of The Inheritance of Loss and The White Tiger” Daniel Allington.-
Part IV. Bookshops, sociability and the interplay of “high” and “consumer” culture
.- Chapter 11. “On the sociability of books for an ethics of modern individuality: Taking Georg Simmel to a provincial English independent bookshop” Daniel R. Smith.- Chapter 12. “The Cultural Biography of the ‘Avant-Garde’: An Intellectual Bookstore and Post-Mao China’s High Culture Legacy” Eve Y. Lin.-
Part V. Reading the social and the aesthetic public sphere
.- Chapter 13. “The Politics of Happily-Ever-After: Romance Genre Fiction as Aesthetic Public Sphere” Anna Michelson.- Chapter 14. “Reading Literature, Reading People, and Reading Risk during the Chinese Cultural Revolution” Eddy U.- Chapter 15. “Living the Global Color Line: Book Interpretations in Kabul as Insights into Transnational Social Structures” Syeda Masood.- Chapter 16. “From normative reading to interfaces of reading: The functions of reading in Chinese literature and society” Lena Henningsen.