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The Double Life of Books: Making and Re-Making the Reader

Peter D McDonald

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Description:The Double Life of Books confronts a central challenge for the history of reading: how to investigate and then describe the elusive process of what the leading book historian Robert Darnton calls ‘inner appropriation.’ It does so by bringing two voices together for the first time: the so-called ‘ordinary reader’ who began life as a devotee of Dr Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat and the literature professor who writes about the history of media and reading. Ranging across world literatures in English since the 1890s and drawing on the latest research into the neuroscience of the reading brain, The Double Life of Books is at once an exercise in materialist autobibliobiography, asking what it means to be a living reader in our multimedia age, and a sustained reflection on academic professionalization, raising new questions about the limits of disciplinarity and critique.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Double Life of Books: Making and Re-Making the Reader. To get started finding The Double Life of Books: Making and Re-Making the Reader, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 256

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Release: 2024

ISBN: 1399524402

Description: The Double Life of Books confronts a central challenge for the history of reading: how to investigate and then describe the elusive process of what the leading book historian Robert Darnton calls ‘inner appropriation.’ It does so by bringing two voices together for the first time: the so-called ‘ordinary reader’ who began life as a devotee of Dr Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat and the literature professor who writes about the history of media and reading. Ranging across world literatures in English since the 1890s and drawing on the latest research into the neuroscience of the reading brain, The Double Life of Books is at once an exercise in materialist autobibliobiography, asking what it means to be a living reader in our multimedia age, and a sustained reflection on academic professionalization, raising new questions about the limits of disciplinarity and critique.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Double Life of Books: Making and Re-Making the Reader. To get started finding The Double Life of Books: Making and Re-Making the Reader, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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