TY - BOOK ID - 80903815 TI - Further reading AU - Rubery, Matthew AU - Price, Leah PY - 2020 SN - 9780198809791 0198809794 PB - Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Books and reading. KW - Livres et lecture KW - Books and reading KW - Appraisal of books KW - Books KW - Choice of books KW - Evaluation of literature KW - Literature KW - Reading, Choice of KW - Reading and books KW - Reading habits KW - Reading public KW - Reading KW - Reading interests KW - Reading promotion KW - Appraisal KW - Evaluation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80903815 AB - What does reading mean in the twenty-first century? As other disciplines challenge literary criticism's authority to answer this question, English professors are defining new alternatives to close reading and to interpretation more generally. Further Reading brings together thirty essays drawing on approaches as different as formalism, historicism, neuroscience, disability, and computation. Contributors take up the following questions: What do we mean when we talk about 'reading' today? How are reading techniques evolving in the digital era? What is the future of reading? This book foregrounds reading as a topic worthy of investigation in its own right rather than as a sub-section of histories of the book, sociologies of literacy, or theories of literature. As our knowledge of reading changes in step with the media and the scholarly tools used to apprehend it, a more precise understanding of this topic is crucial to the discipline's future. This collection introduces new ways of conceptualizing the term's forms, boundaries, and uses. Its contributors bring varied vocabularies to bear on the contested nature and continued importance of reading, within the academy and beyond. ER -