The History of Reading, Volume 3: Methods, Strategies, Tactics

by Shafquat Towheed and Rosalind Crone

Book Overview

List of Figures List of Tables Foreword; S.Eliot Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; R.Crone & S.Towheed PART I: PERSPECTIVES Altick's Map: The New Historiography of the Common Reader; J.Rose Commodity Readers: An Introduction to a Frame for Reading; S.R.Frost PART II: METHODS AND TACTICS Between the Book and the Reader: The Uses of Reading for the Gratification of Personal Psychosocial Needs; H.Adoni & H.Nossek One Reader, Two Votes: Re-tooling Fan Mail Scholarship; B.Ryan The Mediation of Response: A Critical Approach to Individual and Group Reading Practices; D.Allington & J.Swann PART III: INTERPRETATIVE STRATEGIES Representing Reading Spaces; S.Colclough A Book of One's Own: Examples of Library Book Marginalia; M.Dahlstrom PART IV: READING THE VISUAL Reading Ephemera; S.Qureishi Books in Photographs; K.Flint PART V: READING IN THE DIGITAL AGE Filipino Blogs as Evidence of Reading and Reception; V.Totanes Reading the Book of Mozilla: Web Browsers and the Materiality of Digital Texts; A.Galey Further Reading and Weblinks Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349320137
• ISBN13: 9781349320134
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"