"The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures shows how the common practice of reading can illuminate the social and political history of a culture. This ground-breaking study reveals resistance strategies in the reading and writing practices of South Africans;…
Introduction: Home Improvements -- How to Read -- Reading and Sociability -- Using Books -- Access to Reading -- Verse at Home -- Drama and Recital -- Fictional Worlds -- Piety and Knowledge -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index "A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an e…
A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century. Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component o…
The practice and politics of reading, 650-1500
The Textual Life of Airports shows how airports demand to be read. Working at the intersection of literary studies and cultural theory, Schaberg tracks airport stories in American literature, as well as in a range of visual texts (film, airport art, magazine illustrations). Thro…
The Textual Life of Airports shows how airports demand to be read. Working at the intersection of literary studies and cultural theory, Schaberg tracks airport stories in American literature, as well as in a range of visual texts (film, airport art, magazine illustrations). Thro…
Reading English verse in manuscript c.1350-c.1500
Reading English verse in manuscript c.1350-c.1500
Theologie des Lesens: das ist eine Folge von ineinandergreifenden Asymmetrien, in der soweit möglich die Behauptung erprobt wird, Lesen führe unausbleiblich zur Theologie.In diesem Buch durchläuft Günter Bader den Weg von der Gewinnung des Themas bis zur Etablierung aktueller Le…
Introduction: Diffraction, Reading and (New) Materialism / Kai Merten -- PART 1. Diffractive Reading: Groundwork. On the Politics of Diffractive Reading -- Heraclitus's Onto-stories: Impossible appointments and the importance of the encounter -- Decoherent Reading: On the consti…
