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The Cultural Sociology of Reading

Part of the Cultural Sociology Book Series

Editors: Thumala Olave, María Angélica

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-13227-8

ISBN: 978-3-031-13226-1

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Dec 13, 2022

1 - 10 of 19 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Thumala Olave, María Angélica

Pages: 1 –15

[This introduction presents each of the 18 chapters in the book. It highlights the type of reading practices and texts under investigation, the geographical focus, the key arguments and the chapters’ contributions to the cultural sociology of reading. It also establishes some of the connections...
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Reading Matters: Toward a Cultural Sociology of Reading

Thumala Olave, María Angélica

Pages: 19 –61

[Sociologists have studied reading mostly as a product of, or an input to, the social structure. In so doing they have failed to capture why reading matters to people. On the basis of the intensive practices of reading fiction among women in the UK, this chapter begins to develop a cultural...
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Why Do People Read Zines? Meaning, Materiality and Cultures of Reading

Watson, Ash; Bennett, Andy

Pages: 65 –89

[This chapter focuses on the lively, alternative publishing landscape of zine culture. Zines are small independent publications of writing, visual art and/or other creative work that resist and play with mainstream publishing. Zines celebrate a DIY ethos and circulate via fairs, postal networks,...
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Between Self and Other: Anaïs Nin’s Transformative Erotics

Widner, Jessica

Pages: 91 –110

[This chapter addresses a critical neglect of the sense of touch in literary theory, identifying a hierarchy that places sight and hearing above the carnal sense of touch, which has historically been considered a more immediate, therefore less critical, sense. Building on Mark Paterson’s example...
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The Sociological Truth of Fiction: The Aesthetic Structure of a Novel and the Iconic Experience of Reading

Váňa, Jan

Pages: 111 –139

[Following the strong program in cultural sociology, I propose a literary turn to recognize literary texts “as relatively autonomous cultural entities” with their own agency. This chapter is part of a larger project connecting cultural sociology with the sociology of literature and literary...
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Book Love: Attachment to Books in the United Kingdom

Thumala Olave, María Angélica

Pages: 141 –168

[Why do people in the UK read and collect books when there are so many other sources of information and forms of storytelling available? What are the material and experiential bases of book love? People are attached to books because books are icons: they embody and enable the realisation of...
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Easy to Handle and Travel with: Swahili Booklets and Transoceanic Reading Experiences in the Indian Ocean Littoral

Raia, Annachiara

Pages: 169 –208

[This chapter studies how reading practices on the twentieth-century East African Muslim coast were shaped both by producers and by users of Swahili-language religious pocket books printed in Roman and/or Arabic script. The focus will be on editorial strategies, the charity book market, and...
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Spatial Reading: Evaluative Frameworks and the Making of Literary Authority

Leypoldt, Günter

Pages: 211 –247

[This chapter uses Charles Taylor’s theory of evaluative frameworks to solve a problem that has challenged literary theory and historiography for some time: how do we square the tension between the private uses and the public authority of reading? Taylor’s notion of strong value brings out...
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Editor’s Love: Matching, Reading, and the Editorial Self-concept

Silver, Joshua B.; Benzecry, Claudio E.

Pages: 249 –274

[One of the prominent ways sociologists make sense of what published texts we get to read is through the processes by which editors and authors “match.” Most accounts of this encounter explain editor-author matches as a result of dispositions, homophily, or instrumental concerns. Exploring the...
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Reviewing Strategies and the Normalization of Uncertain Texts

Santana-Acuña, Álvaro

Pages: 275 –308

[Reviewers help ease cultural products’ testing transition from the stage of production to that of circulation. Given their intermediate position between stages, reviewers have to deal with uncertainty when valuating new cultural products. How do reviewers in a transnational setting make sense of...

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