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Reading today /
New technologies are changing our reading habits. Laptops, e-readers, tablets and other handheld devices supply new platforms for reading, and we must learn to manage them by scrolling, clicking or tapping. Reading Today places reading in current literary and cultural contexts in order to analyse ho...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
UCL Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Comparative literature and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; New perspectives on reading: an introduction; Reading difficult texts; Reading in contemporary multimedia environments; Self-recognition in reading; Reading in context; Part I Reading challenges; 1 Reading experimental literature: unreadability, discomfort and reading strategies; Unreadability: its meaning, location and effects; Examples of the unreadable; Reading the unreadable; Conclusion; 2 Information and the illusion of totality:: reading the contemporary encyclopedic novel
- An artificial semiotic system guided by the electronic machineFraming the systems of knowledge; Reading systems; 3 The brain in our hands:: the materiality of reading Neuromaani; Patient and prescription: on Neuromaani and the materialist approach; Medical background: Neuromaani's history and close relatives; Brain scans: the reader's place(s) in Neuromaani's structure and composition; Metafictional elements of Neuromaani: reading with power tools; Conclusion: the brains are in our hands; 4 Explorative exposure:: media in and of Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves
- Cybertext theory and House of Leaves's media positionIn the loop; Kinekphrastic intermediality; The ontological cut; Cybertext embedded; Part II New strategies of reading; 5 New reading strategies in the twenty-first century:: transmedia storytelling via app in Marisha Pessl's Night Film; Introduction: changing reading habits in the twenty-first century; The book market, caught in between: electronic versus printed books; Combining novel and app: reading Marisha Pessl's Night Film; Reading Night Film as paperback and e-book; Conclusion: the media threat as an opportunity for the novel
- 6 New reading strategies in print and on digital platforms:: Stephanie Strickland's VThe meandering Vniverse: an ancient goddess and other means of grasping the world; Reading strategies in the digital Vniverse; V as database and vertical reading; Conclusion: the convergences of digital and print V; Part III Reading affectively; 7 Rethinking reading through the novelistic discourses of Don Quixote and Madame Bovary; Don Quixote's influence on Flaubert; Between life and imagination: two misguided readers; The power of suggestion and textual production; Reading and its pleasures
- The interplay between lived experience and its verbal articulationConclusion; 8 'Emily equals childhood and youth and first love':: Finnish readers and L.M. Montgomery's Anne and Emily books; The girls of New Moon and Green Gables; Fleeting moments of reading; Reading the female Bildungsroman; Conclusion; 9 'The miraculous secret of a good book':: representations of the reading experience in Dutch middlebrow criticism; A short history of middlebrow criticism; Gerard van Eckeren: a middlebrow critic; Representations of the reading experience; Conclusion