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Dorothee Birke
Writing the Reader [EPUB ebook]
Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel

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The history of the novel is also a history of shifting views of the value of novel reading. This study investigates how novels themselves participate in this development by featuring reading as a multidimensional cultural practice. English novels about obsessive reading, written in times of medial transition, serve as test cases for a model that brings together analyses of form and content.

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Dorothee Birke, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany, and Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 267 ● ISBN 9783110400069 ● File size 1.7 MB ● Publisher De Gruyter ● City Berlin/Boston ● Published 2016 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6295815 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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