Reading: A cultural practice

✍ Scribed by Vincent Quinn

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 225
Series: Manchester University Press
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Reading: A cultural practice explores the history and theory of reading from the classical period to the present day. It argues that reading is central to human culture and that this will continue to be the case even if digital cultures change the ways in which we interact with written language.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Dedication
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Reading, incorporated
The time and place of reading
The common reader
Close reading, citizenship, and education
Loose reading: Jane Austen in a post-truth age
Reading and technology
Envoi
Bibliography
Index

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