Includes bibliographical references and index.

New perspectives on reading : an introduction

Part I. Reading challenges

1. Reading experimental literature : unreadability, discomfort and reading strategies

2. Information and the illusion of totality : reading the contemporary encyclopedic novel

3. The brain in our hands : the materiality of reading Neuromaani

4. Explorative exposure : media in and of Mark Z. Danielewski’s house of leaves

Part II. New strategies of reading

5. New reading strategies in the twenty-first century : transmedia storytelling via app in Marisha Pessl’s night film

6. New reading strategies in print and on digital platforms : Stephanie Strickland’s V

Part III. Reading affectively

7. Rethinking reading through the novelistic discourses of Don Quixote and Madame Bovary

8. ‘Emily equals childhood and youth and first love’ : Finnish readers and l. M. Montgomery’s Anne and Emily books

9. ‘The miraculous secret of a good book’ : representations of the reading experience in Dutch middlebrow criticism

10. The healing power of books : the novel cure as a culturally tailored literary experiment

Part IV. Reading in context

11. Context in film adaptations