Everyday readers: reading and popular culture
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Main Author: Collinson, Ian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Equinox 2009
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
Life after text: the analysis of everyday cultural practices -- 'I can read any time, but I can't read anywhere' : the place of everyday reading -- 'You give a bit of yourself when you give a book': books, readers and social networks -- 'A lot of Toni Morrison's stuff is sad' : readers, repertoires, texts -- 'Doing things with books': listening to everyday readers
To the apparently simple and perennial question: 'what do people do with books?', this research offers a sophisticated response that goes beyond the narrow perception that reading is solely the consumption of narrative. It combines a number of different academic approaches (cultural geography and sociology; literary and cultural studies; and cultural history) in order to better understand the complex nature of readers' everyday encounters with their books
Physical Description:155 pages
ISBN:9781845533557
1845533550
9781845537289
1845537289

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