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List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgements x
Introduction: Anatomy of Reading 1
Books 3
Bibliomania 4
Bodies 8
A History of Reading 13
From reading aloud to reading silently 14
From monastic to scholastic reading 15
Reading in solitude 17
From intensive to extensive reading 19
The Material Conditions of Reading 23
Expressive function of print 25
Instability of the textual object 27
Histories of textual transmission 29
From manuscript to typographic culture 32
From print to hypermedia culture 33
The Physiology of Consumption 36
Side-effects of reading 37
Reading-fever 39
Reading addiction 42
Modernity and the assault on the senses 45
Eye-strain and eye-hunger 49
Film-fever 50
Dazzling the audience 52
Dizzy in hyperspace 53
(Dis)embodied in cyberspace 57
Passive consumers 58
The Reader in Fiction 62
Dangers of reading 63
The tearful reader 65
The frightened reader 69
The passionate reader 72
Pathology of reading 74
Reading games 76
The danger of a future without books 77
Multisensory media 79
The Role o'f Affect in Literary Criticism 83
Reading with/without pathos 84
Docere-delectare-movere 86
From reader to author to text 90
Disinterested and contemplative reading 92
Close reading 96
Reading for sense rather than sensation 98
The Reader in Theory 103
(Un)readability 105
A priori conditions of reading 107
Controlling readers' responses 108
Reading expectations 109
Conventions of reading 111
Interpretive communities 113
Failure of reading 116
Misreading 119
The reader as writer 120
The politics of difference 122
Sexual Politics of Reading 125
The resisting reader 127
Black women readers 128
Empirical audiences 131
Active consumers 134
'Low-/middle-/highbrow' reading 137
Embodied reading 142
Reading as/like a woman 148
The feminization of the reader 151
Conclusion: Materialist Readings 154
Notes 158
References and Bibliography 168
Index 186
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Ian Smith
reviewed Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies, and Bibliomania on March 20, 2020
Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies, and Bibliomania
Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies, and Bibliomania focuses upon 'current critical understanding of reading and readership studies'. In the book, Karin Littau has aimed to 'bring insights from book history to bear on literary history and theory'. She is a firm believer that 'the relation between a book and a reader is also a relation between two bodies: one made of paper and ink, the other of flesh and blood'.
In Theories of Reading, Littau charts how media and technology have altered the experience of reading. She believes that the book is a medium which deserves to be celebrated as it is 'the longest serving medium for the storage, retrieval and transmission of knowledge'.
The book is split into many manageable sections which cover a wide variety of book and reading-related topics, spanning such subjects as reading aloud, the progression of printing, 'reading addiction', 'film-fever', bibliomania, the 'dangers' of reading, contemplation of a future without books and the sexual politics of novels. Throughout, Littau charts the progress of the book from its beginnings 'scratched into stone, clay or wax', to the newer technological innovations such as e-readers and the Internet, which have changed the way in which we read.
A vast array of sources have been used in order to give an informed overview of the book and how it has been used and received historically. Littau has used sources as diverse as those focusing upon Romantic theory, the use of bibliographies in the modern world, the function of criticism and different races and sexes as 'cultural readers'. Several illustrations have been included throughout the volume, all of which relate to the preceding text. The headings used successfully break up the text, making it easy to find specific subsections.
Theories of Reading is an incredibly interesting and informative book, far-reaching in its scope. A vast array of points have been included, considered in a manner which works well. Each statement which Littau has made throughout the book is backed up by historical fact and the opinions of other writers and specialists who can further enforce her argument. Theories of Reading is a wonderful reference book for students and those interested in reading and 'bibliomania'.
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