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The Cultural Sociology of Reading - The Meanings of Reading and Books Across the World (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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The Cultural Sociology of Reading - The Meanings of Reading and Books Across the World (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Cultural Sociology
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This book showcases recent work about reading and books in
sociology and the humanities across the globe. From different
standpoints and within the broad perspectives within the cultural
sociology of reading, the eighteen chapters examine a range of
reading practices, genres, types of texts, and reading spaces. They
cover the Anglophone area of the United States, the United Kingdom
and Australia; the transnational, multilingual space constituted by
the readership of the Colombian novel One Hundred Years of
Solitude; nineteenth-century Chile; twentieth-century Czech
Republic; twentieth century Swahili readings in East Africa;
contemporary Iran; and China during the cultural revolution and the
post-Mao period. The chapters contribute to current debates about
the valuation of literature and the role of cultural
intermediaries; the iconic properties of textual objects and of the
practice of reading itself; how reading supports personal, social
and political reflection; bookstores as spaces for sociability and
the interplay of high and commercial cultures; the political uses
of reading for nation-building and propaganda, and the dangers and
gratifications of reading under repression. In line with the
cultural sociology of reading's focus on meaning, materiality and
emotion, this book explores the existential, ethical and political
consequences of reading in specific locations and historical
moments.
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