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Author:   María Angélica Thumala Olave
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.924kg
ISBN:  

9783031132261

ISBN 10:   3031132262
Pages:   590
Publication Date:   13 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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.

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María Angélica Thumala Olave is Lecturer in Global Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her recent research explores the personal and political significance of reading and books in Latin America and the UK.

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