Theories of Reading : books, bodies and bibliomania / Karin Littau

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Introduction: Anatomy of Reading. -- Books. -- Bibliomania. -- Bodies. -- A History of Reading. -- From reading aloud to reading silently. -- From monastic to scholastic reading. -- Reading in solitude. -- From intensive to extensive reading. -- The Material Conditions of Reading. -- Expressive function of print. -- Instability of the textual object. -- Histories of textual transmission. -- From manuscript to typographic culture. -- From print to hypermedia culture. -- The Physiology of Comsumption. -- Side-affects of reading. -- Reading-fever. -- Reading addiction. -- Modernity and ther assault on the senses. -- Eye-strain and eye-hunger. -- Film-fever. -- Dazzling the audience. -- Dizzy in hyperspace. -- (Dis)embodied incyberspace. -- Passive consumers. -- The Reader in Fiction. -- Dangers of reading. -- The tearful reader. -- The frightened reader. -- The passionate reader. -- Pathology of reading. -- Reading games. -- The danger of a future without books. -- Mutisensoty media. -- The Role of Affect in Literary Criticism. -- Readins with/without pathos. -- Docere-delectare-movere. -- From reader to author to text. -- Desinterested and contemplative reading. -- Clorse reading. -- Reading for sense rather than sensation. -- The Reader in Theory. -- (Un)readability. -- A priori conditions of reading. -- Controlling readers' responses. -- Reading expectations. -- Conventions of reading. -- Interpretive communities. -- Failure of reading. -- Misreading. -- The reader as writer. -- The politics of difference. -- Sexual Politics of Reading. -- THe resisting reader. -- Black women readers. -- Empirical audiences. -- Active consumers. -- 'Low-/middle-/highbrow' reading. -- Embodied reading. -- Reading as/like a woman. -- The feminization of the reader.

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