Plotting the reading experience : theory, practice, politics / Paulette M. Rothbauer, Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad, Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie, and Knut Oterholm, editors.

Papers from a symposium entitled "Researching the Reading Experience" held in Oslo, Norway, June 11-12, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Introduction : plotting the reading experience -- The hidden foundations of critical reading / Magnus Persson -- What is a reading experience? : the development of a theoretical and empirical understanding / Gitte Balling -- Re-imagining reading / Gabrielle Cliff Hodges -- Evidence of reading? : the Swedish public's letters to Selma Lagerlöf : quantitative and qualitative approaches to the history of reading / Jenny Bergenmar and Maria Karlsson -- Byatt versus Bloom : or, reading by patricide versus reading by love / Marianne Børch -- A cognitive poetic approach to researching the reading experience / Sara Whiteley -- Tempering ambiguity -- the quality of the reading experience / Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad and Knut Oterholm -- Fun ... and other reasons for sharing reading with strangers : mass reading events and the possibilities of pleasure / Danielle Fuller and DeNel Rehberg Sedo -- The once and future self : (re)reading personal lists, notes, and calendars / Pamela McKenzie and Elisabeth Davies -- More benefit from a well-stocked library than a well-stocked pharmacy : how do readers use books as therapy? / Liz Brewster -- Literary reading as a social technology : an exploratory study on shared reading groups / Mette Steenberg -- The indescribable described : readers' experiences when reading about tragic loss / Eva Maria Koopman -- When comics set the pace : the experience of time and the reading of comics / Lucia Cedeira Serantes -- Reading groups in Swedish public libraries / Kerstin Rydbeck -- "I readed it!" (Marissa, 4 years) : the experience of reading from the perspective of young children themselves : a cautionary tale / Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie -- Reading the readers : tracking visible online reading audiences / Marianne Martens -- Literature in common : reading for pleasure in school reading groups / Teresa Cremin and Joan Swann -- Desire and becoming -- multilingual pupils' reading experiences / Joron Pihl and Kristin Skinstad van der Kooij -- Experiencing the social melodrama in the 21st century : approaches of amateur and professional criticism / Cecilie Naper -- The republic of readers : book clubs in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1815-1830 / Arnold Lubbers -- "Crazy thirst for knowledge" : Chinese readers and the 1980s "book series fever" / Shih-Wen Sue Chen -- Enabling testimonies and producing witnesses : exploring readers' responses to two Norwegian post-terror blogs / Tonje Vold.

"It's a scholarly examination of the experience of reading--what it feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read and under what conditions--in various social, cultural, and political contexts. It contextualizes the reader's experience by putting it into dialogue with theories, practices, and politics."-- Provided by publisher.

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