Literary Cultures and the Material Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literary Cultures and the Material Book write by Simon Eliot. This book was released on 2007. Literary Cultures and the Material Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Derived from papers presented at an international symposium held at the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies in the Institute of English Studies in the University of London and at the British Library, London in 2004.
The Fabric of Empire
The Fabric of Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fabric of Empire write by Danielle C. Skeehan. This book was released on 2020-12-08. The Fabric of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing together methods and materials traditionally belonging to literary studies, book history, and material culture studies, The Fabric of Empire provides a new model for thinking about the different media, languages, literacies, and textualities in the early Atlantic world.
Reading Beyond the Book
Reading Beyond the Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading Beyond the Book write by Danielle Fuller. This book was released on 2013-04-02. Reading Beyond the Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling, and face-to-face and online book groups. This volume offers the first critical analysis of mass reading events and the contemporary meanings of reading in the UK, USA, and Canada based on original interviews and surveys with readers and event organizers. The resurgence of book groups has inspired new cultural formations of what the authors call "shared reading." They interrogate the enduring attraction of an old technology for readers, community organizers, and government agencies, exploring the social practices inspired by the sharing of books in public spaces and revealing the complex ideological investments made by readers, cultural workers, institutions, and the mass media in the meanings of reading.
Literary Cultures and Medieval and Early Modern Childhoods
Literary Cultures and Medieval and Early Modern Childhoods - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literary Cultures and Medieval and Early Modern Childhoods write by Naomi J. Miller. This book was released on 2019-07-17. Literary Cultures and Medieval and Early Modern Childhoods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Building on recent critical work, this volume offers a comprehensive consideration of the nature and forms of medieval and early modern childhoods, viewed through literary cultures. Its five groups of thematic essays range across a spectrum of disciplines, periods, and locations, from cultural anthropology and folklore to performance studies and the history of science, and from Anglo-Saxon burial sites to colonial America. Contributors include several renowned writers for children. The opening group of essays, Educating Children, explores what is perhaps the most powerful social engine for the shaping of a child. Performing Childhood addresses children at work and the role of play in the development of social imitation and learning. Literatures of Childhood examines texts written for children that reveal alternative conceptions of parent/child relations. In Legacies of Childhood, expressions of grief at the loss of a child offer a window into the family’s conceptions and values. Finally, Fictionalizing Literary Cultures for Children considers the real, material child versus the fantasy of the child as a subject.
Bring on the Books for Everybody
Bring on the Books for Everybody - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bring on the Books for Everybody write by Jim Collins. This book was released on 2010-06-30. Bring on the Books for Everybody available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on the screen as on the page. Fueled by Oprah’s Book Club, Miramax film adaptations, superstore bookshops, and new technologies such as the Kindle digital reader, literary fiction has been transformed into best-selling, high-concept entertainment. Collins highlights the infrastructural and cultural changes that have given rise to a flourishing reading public at a time when the future of the book has been called into question. Book reading, he claims, has not become obsolete; it has become integrated into popular visual media. Collins explores how digital technologies and the convergence of literary, visual, and consumer cultures have changed what counts as a “literary experience” in phenomena ranging from lush film adaptations such as The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love to the customer communities at Amazon. Central to Collins’s analysis and, he argues, to contemporary literary culture, is the notion that refined taste is now easily acquired; it is just a matter of knowing where to access it and whose advice to trust. Using recent novels, he shows that the redefined literary landscape has affected not just how books are being read, but also what sort of novels are being written for these passionate readers. Collins connects literary bestsellers from The Jane Austen Book Club and Literacy and Longing in L.A. to Saturday and The Line of Beauty, highlighting their depictions of fictional worlds filled with avid readers and their equations of reading with cultivated consumer taste.
