From Codex to Hypertext

by Lang, Anouk

• ISBN13: 9781558499539
• ISBN10: 1558499539
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-31
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Summary

The start of the twenty-first century has brought with it a rich variety of ways in which readers can connect with one another, access texts, and make sense of what they are reading. At the same time, new technologies have also opened up exciting possibilities for scholars of reading and reception in offering them unprecedented amounts of data on reading practices, book buying patterns, and book collecting habits.

Author Biography

Anouk Lang is a Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Strathclyde and an honorary research fellow in the School of English, Drama, and American and Canadian Studies at the University of Birmingham.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Transforming Reading	p. 1
Communities and Practices
Zines then and Now: What Are They? What Do You Do With Them? How Do They Work?	p. 27
Have Mouse, Will Travel: Consuming and Creating Chinese Popular Literature on the Web	p. 48
Online Literary Communities: A Case Study of LibraryThing	p. 68
Building a National Culture of Reading in the "New" South Africa	p. 88
Literary Taste and List Culture in a Time of "Endless Choice"	p. 108
"Keepin' It Real": Incarcerated Women's Readings of African American Urban Fiction	p. 124
Producing Meaning Through Interaction: Book Groups and the Social Context of Reading	p. 142
Genre in the Marketplace: The Scene of Bookselling in Canada	p. 159
Methods
New Literary Cultures: Mapping the Digital Networks of Toni Morrison	p. 177
Confounding the Literary: Temporal Problems in Hypertext	p. 203
Reading the Reading Experience: An Ethnomethodological Approach to "Booktalk"	p. 217
Mixing it Up: Using Mixed Methods Research to Investigate Contemporary Cultures of Reading	p. 234
About the Contributors	p. 253
Index	p. 255
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