Reading Across Worlds - Transnational Book Groups and the Reception of Difference

Zusatztext Informationen zum Autor James Procter is a Reader in the School of English at Newcastle University, UK. His publications include Writing Black Britain (2000), Dwelling Places (2003), Stuart Hall (2004), and (with Benwell and Robinson) co-editor of Postcolonial Audiences (2012). Bethan Benwell is a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Literature and Languages at the University of Stirling, UK. She has published widely on discursive approaches to identity, including those of readers. Her publications include Masculinity and Men's Lifestyle Magazines (2003) and (with Stokoe) Discourse and Identity (2006) and (with Procter and Robinson) co-editor of Postcolonial Audiences (2012). Klappentext Combining sustained empirical analysis of reading group conversations with four case studies of classic and contemporary novels: Things Fall Apart! White Teeth! Brick Lane and Small Island! this book pursues what can be gained through a comparative approach to reading and readerships. Zusammenfassung Combining sustained empirical analysis of reading group conversations with four case studies of classic and contemporary novels: Things Fall Apart! White Teeth! Brick Lane and Small Island! this book pursues what can be gained through a comparative approach to reading and readerships. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Transcription Key Notes on Book Groups 1. Introduction 2. Professional and Lay Readers 3. Remote Reading 4. Reading and Realism 5. Reading in the Literary Market Place 6. Reading as a Social Practice – Race Talk Appendices Endnotes Bibliography Index

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Transcription Key Notes on Book Groups 1. Introduction 2. Professional and Lay Readers 3. Remote Reading 4. Reading and Realism 5. Reading in the Literary Market Place 6. Reading as a Social Practice - Race Talk Appendices Endnotes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: B Benwell, B. Benwell, Bethan Benwell, Procter, J Procter, J. Procter, J. Benwell Procter
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349446650
• ISBN: 978-1-349-44665-0
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: New Directions in Book History; New Directions in Book History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, Literature, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary theory, World Literature, Literature, general, Culture—Study and teaching, Civilization—History, Biography, Literature & Literary studies, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Postcolonial/World Literature, African Literature