The cultural sociology of reading : the meanings of reading and books across the world /: the meanings of reading and books across the world. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by María Angélica Thumala Olave.
• Editors: Thumala Olave, María Angélica
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 306.488; Books and reading -- Sociological aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031132278
• Related ISBNs: 9783031132261
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