Writing the Reader: Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel
The history of the novel is also a history of shifting views of the value of novel reading. This study investigates how novels themselves participate in this development by featuring reading as a multidimensional cultural practice. English novels about obsessive reading, written in times of medial transition, serve as test cases for a model that brings together analyses of form and content.
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Writing the Reader: Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel
The history of the novel is also a history of shifting views of the value of novel reading. This study investigates how novels themselves participate in this development by featuring reading as a multidimensional cultural practice. English novels about obsessive reading, written in times of medial transition, serve as test cases for a model that brings together analyses of form and content.
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Writing the Reader: Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel

Writing the Reader: Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel

by Dorothee Birke
Writing the Reader: Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel

Writing the Reader: Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel

by Dorothee Birke

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The history of the novel is also a history of shifting views of the value of novel reading. This study investigates how novels themselves participate in this development by featuring reading as a multidimensional cultural practice. English novels about obsessive reading, written in times of medial transition, serve as test cases for a model that brings together analyses of form and content.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783110400069
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication date: 08/08/2016
Series: linguae #x00026; litterae , #59
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 267
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Dorothee Birke, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany, and Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark.
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