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The Cultural Sociology of Reading = The Meanings of Reading and Books Across the World /

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Title/Author:	The Cultural Sociology of Reading/ edited by María Angélica Thumala Olave.
Reminder of title:	The Meanings of Reading and Books Across the World /
other author:	Thumala Olave, María Angélica.
Description:	XXV, 590 p. 36 illus., 26 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Culture. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13227-8
ISBN:	9783031132278

The Cultural Sociology of Reading = The Meanings of Reading and Books Across the World /
The Cultural Sociology of ReadingThe Meanings of Reading and Books Across the World /[electronic resource] :edited by María Angélica Thumala Olave. - 1st ed. 2022. - XXV, 590 p. 36 illus., 26 illus. in color.online resource. - Cultural Sociology. - Cultural Sociology.

Introduction María Angélica Thumala Olave -- Part I. The project of a cultural sociology of reading -- Chapter 1. “Reading matters. A cultural sociology of reading” María Angélica Thumala Olave -- Part II. Reading, books and texts as iconic experience -- Chapter 2. “The Felt Value of Reading Zines” Ash Watson and Andy Bennett -- Chapter 3. “Between self and other: Anäis Nin’s transformative erotics” Jessica Widner -- Chapter 4. “Knowing through Feeling: The Aesthetic Structure of a Novel and the Iconic Experience of Reading” Jan Vâna -- Chapter 5. “Book love. A cultural sociological interpretation of the attachment to books” María Angélica Thumala Olave -- Part III. Literary value, evaluation and cultural intermediaries -- Chapter 6. “Spatial Reading: Evaluative Frameworks and the Making of Literary Authority” Günther Leypoldt -- Chapter 7. “Readers and Reviewers: A Symbiotic Knot” Phillipa Chong -- Chapter 8. “The Courage to Continue: Reading and Motivating Intellectual Labors at University Presses” Joshua Silver -- Chapter 9. “Reviewing Strategies and the Normalization of Uncertain Texts” Álvaro Santana Acuña -- Chapter 10. “Customer reviews of 'highbrow' literature: a comparative reception study of The Inheritance of Loss and The White Tiger” Daniel Allington -- Part IV. Bookshops, sociability and the interplay of “high” and “consumer” culture -- Chapter 11. “On the sociability of books for an ethics of modern individuality: Taking Georg Simmel to a provincial English independent bookshop” Daniel R. Smith -- Chapter 12. “The Cultural Biography of the ‘Avant-Garde’: An Intellectual Bookstore and Post-Mao China’s High Culture Legacy” Eve Y. Lin -- Part V. Reading the social and the aesthetic public sphere -- Chapter 13. “The Politics of Happily-Ever-After: Romance Genre Fiction as Aesthetic Public Sphere” Anna Michelson -- Chapter 14. “Reading Literature, Reading People, and Reading Risk during the Chinese Cultural Revolution” Eddy U -- Chapter 15. “Living the Global Color Line: Book Interpretations in Kabul as Insights into Transnational Social Structures” Syeda Masood -- Chapter 16. “From normative reading to interfaces of reading: The functions of reading in Chinese literature and society” Lena Henningsen.

“Reading is the interplay between embodied texts and human beings. It takes place in landscapes of politics, economics, emotions, memories, and hierarchies of both social power and cultural prestige. The essays in The Cultural Sociology of Reading untangle this rather mysterious practice. More, they exemplify what the best sociology can do: They situate readers within specific local and global contexts, among unevenly distributed material and intellectual affordances, and then explore and illuminate what happens.” —Wendy Griswold, Professor of Sociology and Bergen Evans Professor of Humanities, Northwestern University, USA “The book edited by María Angélica Thumala Olave is a major contribution to the study of the book and its multiple appropriations, a particularly dynamic and fertile sector of cultural sociology. Thanks to the quality of the chapters, it succeeds in the tour de force of making us understand, in relation to varied national contexts, periods and types of texts, the meaning and functions, from the most political to the most intimate, of an object as central in the history of humanity as the book.” —Bernard Lahire, Professor of Sociology, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France This book showcases recent work about reading, in sociology and the humanities across the globe. From different standpoints within the cultural sociology of reading, the eighteen chapters examine a range of reading practices, genres, texts and reading spaces. They contribute to current debates about the valuation of literature and the role of cultural intermediaries; the iconic properties of textual objects and of the practice of reading itself; how reading supports personal, social and political reflection; bookstores as spaces for sociability and the interplay of high and commercial cultures; the political uses of reading for nation-building and propaganda, and the dangers and gratifications of reading under repression. In line with the cultural sociology of reading’s focus on meaning, materiality and emotion, this book explores the existential, ethical and political consequences of reading in specific locations and historical moments. María Angélica Thumala Olave is Lecturer in Global Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. .

ISBN: 9783031132278

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-13227-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

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