The Cultural Sociology of Reading: The Meanings of Reading and Books Across the World

The Cultural Sociology of Reading: The Meanings of Reading and Books Across the World – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783031132261,3031132262,9783031132278, 3031132270

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3031132270
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9783031132278
• Author: Thumala Olave

Table contents:

1. Introduction

Part I. The Project of a Cultural Sociology of Reading

2. Reading Matters: Toward a Cultural Sociology of Reading

Part II. Reading, Books and Texts as Iconic Experience

3. Why Do People Read Zines? Meaning, Materiality and Cultures of Reading

4. Between Self and Other: Anaïs Nin’s Transformative Erotics

5. The Sociological Truth of Fiction: The Aesthetic Structure of a Novel and the Iconic Experience of Reading

6. Book Love: Attachment to Books in the United Kingdom

7. Easy to Handle and Travel with: Swahili Booklets and Transoceanic Reading Experiences in the Indian Ocean Littoral

Part III. Literary Value and Cultural Intermediaries

8. Spatial Reading: Evaluative Frameworks and the Making of Literary Authority

9. Editor’s Love: Matching, Reading, and the Editorial Self-concept

10. Reviewing Strategies and the Normalization of Uncertain Texts

11. Customer Reviews of “highbrow” Literature: A Comparative Reception Study of The Inheritance of Loss and The White Tiger

12. A Self Enlarged by Fiction

Part IV. Bookshops, Libraries, and the Interplay of “High” and “Popular” Culture

13. Reading, Novels and the Ethics of Sociability: Taking Simmel to an Independent English Bookshop

14. The Value of Books and Reading as Social Practices in Nineteenth-Century Chile: The Perspectives of Government and Citizens

15. Between Avant-Garde and Kitsch: Intellectual Bookstores and Post-Mao China’s Reading Culture

Part V. Modes of Reading, the State and the Public Sphere

16. The Politics of Happily-Ever-After: Romance Genre Fiction as Aesthetic Public Sphere

17. Clandestine Reading Practice in the Chinese Cultural Revolution

18. The Decline of Literary Reading and the Rise of the Literal Mind

19. The Functions of Reading in Chinese Literature and Societ

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