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What Readers Do: Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a Post-Digital Age

Autor Dr Beth Driscoll
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 mar 2024
Shining a spotlight on everyday readers of the 21st century, Beth Driscoll explores how contemporary readers of Anglophone fiction interact with the book industry, digital environments, and each other.We live in an era when book clubs, bibliomemoirs, Bookstagram and BookTok are as valuable to some readers as solitary reading moments. The product of nearly two decades of qualitative research into readers and reading culture, What Readers Do examines reading through three dimensions - aesthetic conduct, moral conduct, and self-care - to show how readers intertwine private and social behaviors, and both reinforce and oppose the structures of capitalism. Analyzing reading as a post-digital practice that is a synthesis of both print and digital modes and on- and offline behaviors, Driscoll presents a methodology for studying readers that connects book history, literary studies, sociology, and actor-network theory. Arguing for the vitality, agency, and creativity of readers, this book sheds light on how we read now - and on how much more readers do than just read.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350375185
ISBN-10: 1350375187
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Proposes a methodology for studying reading that identifies readers, the books they're reading, how to reflect on the book, the wider production and reception networks of the book and how the text, its networks and the statements and practices of its readers relate to each other

Notă biografică

Beth Driscoll is Associate Professor of Publishing and Communications at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her publications to date have engaged closely with contemporary book culture, including The New Literary Middlebrow: Tastemakers and Reading in the Twenty-First Century (2014) and over 20 book chapters and journal articles in venues including Post45, Textual Practice, Qualitative Inquiry and Angelaki. She has worked on multiple collaborative research projects, the outcomes of which include The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business (with Claire Squires, 2020), Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and Twenty-First Century Book Culture (with Kim Wilkins and Lisa Fletcher, 2022), and The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition (with Claire Squires, 2023).

Cuprins

Introduction: The Multi-Dimensional ReaderChapter 1: A Methodology for Contemporary Reading StudiesChapter 2: Locating ReadersChapter 3: Reading as Aesthetic Conduct Chapter 4: Reading as a Moral ForceChapter 5: Reading as Self-CareConclusionBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Reading about reading has rarely been so enjoyable. At a time of gloom and anxiety about the book's future, Beth Driscoll reminds us how much there is to celebrate about twenty-first century readers.