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Reading across worlds [Texte imprimé] : transnational book groups and the reception of difference / James Procter, Bethan Benwell

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New directions in book history (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke)Publication details: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015Description: 1 vol. (XIV-274 p.) : couv. ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 978-1-137-27639-1
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.5 23
Other classification:
  • 000
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Transcription Key -- Notes on Book Groups -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Professional and Lay Readers -- 3. Remote Reading -- 4. Reading and Realism -- 5. Reading in the Literary Market Place -- 6. Reading as a Social Practice - Race Talk -- Appendices
Summary: "Moving between the worlds of professional (academic) and lay readers (book groups), between metropolitan and non-metropolitan audiences, between the imagined worlds of fiction and the real worlds of reading, and between the locations of England, Scotland, Canada, the Caribbean, India and Africa, Reading Across Worlds draws otherwise distant readerships into conversation. Combining sustained empirical analysis of reading group conversations with four case studies of classic and contemporary novels: Things Fall Apart, White Teeth, Brick Lane and Small Island, the book pursues what can be gained through a comparative approach to reading and readerships. This is a book about how readers beyond the academy talk about, use and make sense of a literature that publishers and bookstores, the press and professional critics, have variously labelled 'multicultural', 'international', 'diasporic', 'cosmopolitan', 'global', 'postcolonial', 'Third World', or more recently, 'World'. "-- Provided by publisher
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"Moving between the worlds of professional (academic) and lay readers (book groups), between metropolitan and non-metropolitan audiences, between the imagined worlds of fiction and the real worlds of reading, and between the locations of England, Scotland, Canada, the Caribbean, India and Africa, Reading Across Worlds draws otherwise distant readerships into conversation. Combining sustained empirical analysis of reading group conversations with four case studies of classic and contemporary novels: Things Fall Apart, White Teeth, Brick Lane and Small Island, the book pursues what can be gained through a comparative approach to reading and readerships. This is a book about how readers beyond the academy talk about, use and make sense of a literature that publishers and bookstores, the press and professional critics, have variously labelled 'multicultural', 'international', 'diasporic', 'cosmopolitan', 'global', 'postcolonial', 'Third World', or more recently, 'World'. "-- Provided by publisher

Bibliogr. p. 244-254

Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Transcription Key -- Notes on Book Groups -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Professional and Lay Readers -- 3. Remote Reading -- 4. Reading and Realism -- 5. Reading in the Literary Market Place -- 6. Reading as a Social Practice - Race Talk -- Appendices

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