Reading today
/ edited by Heta Pyrhönen and Janna Kantola
- 1 online resource (199 pages) : illustrations
- Comparative literature and culture .
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