Further reading / edited by Matthew Rubery and Leah Price.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rubery, Matthew, editor.

Price, Leah, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Oxford twenty-first century approaches to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading.

Physical Description:

xv, 402 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

What does reading mean in the twenty-first century? As other disciplines challenge literary criticism's authority to answer this question, English professors are defining new alternatives to close reading and to interpretation more generally. Further Reading brings together thirty essays drawing on approaches as different as formalism, historicism, neuroscience, disability, and computation. Contributors take up the following questions: What do we mean when we talk about 'reading' today? How are reading techniques evolving in the digital era? What is the future of reading? This book foregrounds reading as a topic worthy of investigation in its own right rather than as a sub-section of histories of the book, sociologies of literacy, or theories of literature. As our knowledge of reading changes in step with the media and the scholarly tools used to apprehend it, a more precise understanding of this topic is crucial to the discipline's future. This collection introduces new ways of conceptualizing the term's forms, boundaries, and uses. Its contributors bring varied vocabularies to bear on the contested nature and continued importance of reading, within the academy and beyond.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: SCENES

1. In Ancient Rome / Joseph A. Howley

2. In the Classroom / Christopher Cannon

3. In the Custom House / Isabel Hofmeyr

4. In Public / Steven Connor

5. Across Borders / Wendy Griswold

6. Neuroimaged / Karah Smith

STYLES

7. Distant / Elaine Treharne

8. Assigned / Deidre Lynch

9. Actual / Garrett Stewart

10. Technical / Cannon Schmitt

11. Postcritical / Ritafelski

12. Enumerative / Andrew Piper

13. Repeat / Christina Lupton

SENSES

14. Sight / Johanna Drucker

15. Sound / Christophergrobe

16. Touch / Gillian Silverman

17. Aurality / Georgina Kleege

18. Deafness / Rebecca Sanchez

19. Accessibility / Jonathan Lazar

BRAINS

20. Neuroscience / Paul B. Armstrong

21. Mental Representation / Andrew Elfenbein

22. Mindreading and Social Status / Lisa Zunshine

23. Consciousness / Anezka Kuzmicova

24. Pleasure / Amy M. Belfi

25. Dyslexia: Through the Eyes of da Vinci / Maryanne Wolf

FUTURES

26. Tracked / Whitney Trettien

27. Translated / Rebecca L. Walkowitz

28. Electronic / Jessica Pressman

29. Interfaced / Lori Emerson

30. Machine / Stephen Ramsay

31. Not / Lisa Gitelman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780198809791

0198809794

OCLC:

1110450485