This article aims at offering a reassessment of ekphrasis, expanding on the definitions in work by Tamar Yacobi and James A. W. Heffernan, to name only two. It aims to distinguish between different ...types of ekphrasis according to the various functions it may assume: narrativizing, maieutic, hermeneutic, subversive, elegiac, and affective. Ekphrasis has undergone a new turn in our digital age and is even more widespread than before, since it is no longer confined to books. The word/image relationship has become more broadly part of our everyday life. This article argues that reception theory and the phenomenology of reading and viewing must be taken into account in analyzing this new experience of a digital virtual world. The emergence of a mental image conjured up by the word/image interaction plays a role not only in our cognitive but also in our bodily experience. I propose that the interaction and oscillation between the page or the screen (the receiving device) on which the ekphrasis appears and our mind’s eye generates a blend that I call the “pictorial third” as a means of accounting for the reading/visualizing experience.
The narrated news event and the news reading situation are two key locations of controversy that are highlighted in the study of controversy as news discourse. In contrast to the direct dialogue of ...the classical speaking situation, the indirect dialogues of news discourse toggle attention between the narration of the journalist and the pragmatic interaction of the narrated interlocutors. If the classical speaking situation depicts an ideal pragmatic interaction, news discourse depicts a pragmatic engagement that is mediated by a reporting situation and situated in historical and social contexts. In narrated news events, controversy appears as a constituent of the these various levels of context. When approached with certain genres of reading, the formulas of news discourse help to position the reader and the text artifact in a larger public space in which controversy unfolds.
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Reading for Community Llewellyn, Dawn
Reading, Feminism, and Spirituality
Book Chapter
The third wave’s encouragement of individual feminist meanings and practices has been interpreted as signaling the “death” of feminism as a social, political, and women-centered movement. Its ...insistence on intersectionality, gendered differences, and the “multiplicity of every person’s possible identifications” (Kristeva, 1986b 1979, p. 210) has advanced the pursuit of local feminisms (Zack, 2005, p. 3), but the emphasis on fragmented subjectivities, and the relative definitions of feminism makes it difficult for woman/women to be the basis for commonality, which threatens the cohesion of a unified feminist community.
I begin this chapter with a short poem of my own that I have given the unimpressive title of “Untitled.” I agree that it feels lazy when writers do this. In fact, I hate when writers do this. Why ...couldn’t the author or poet take the time to craft some sort of title, at least any sort of title, in order to make the poem feel finished? Titles have uses after all.
This paper seeks a reengagement with Doris Lessing's classic novel The Golden Notebook in relation to the concept of intermittency outlined in Andrew Gibson's recent theoretical work. Gibson argues ...that recent continental philosophy has broken with a linear reading of history in favour of the intermittent occurrence of Events: moments of crisis and rupture from which truth, politics, and justice emerge into the actual. Lessing's novel, praised for its honest depiction of women's experience at the dawn of the Sixties, is situated resolutely in a post-war world between Events, a time Gibson would depict as concrete in its non-Evental stasis. However, the vision of history which emerges in the novel is porous, ephemeral, one moment splintered between characters' contested ideologies and the next fused in bodily interpellation. By returning to this work of considerable historical significance we can also contest Gibson's categorisation of literature as a 'residue of events'. A paradigmatic rupture in the cultural framework forces a reengagement with the historical present with equal, if not superior force to the physical manifestation of the political. Lessing's novel, this paper argues, stages the Evental entrance of the permeable emotional body into a post-war British discourse dominated by 'managed' technocratic forms.
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One Book Nova Scotia is described on the program’s website as “a province-wide community reading event for adults.” Formally programmed events have included the book announcement and launch, a series ...of author readings, and book discussions, both face to face and through Twitter. This paper analyzes the success of the One Book Nova Scotia program in achieving its goals of developing a reading culture and community in the province of Nova Scotia based on the findings of a participant survey, distributed in both 2012 and 2013, and an analysis of the 2013 Twitter discussion. This analysis reveals that participants tended to be well-educated females, aged 50-59, and often employed in libraries, bookselling or publishing, or news media. The goal of developing or participating in a reading community was a compelling motivator for many respondents. Although many respondents indicated their desire to be part of a reading community, Twitter was not proven to be an effective forum for fostering conversation or debate related to One Book Nova Scotia. Building on the analysis, the paper concludes with some recommendations to improve the effectiveness of future programs. These recommendations include the selection of a book with strong regional connections, an expansion of publicity methods, an increase in lead time between the announcement of the book title and the start of programming, and a more strategic use of Twitter as a discussion forum. Although these recommendations arise from the specific analysis of the One Book Nova Scotia reading program, they are general enough to apply to other One Book, One Community programs.
Child Readers and the Worlds of the Picture Book Baird, Adela; Laugharne, Janet; Maagerø, Eva ...
Children's Literature in Education,
03/2016, Volume:
47, Issue:
1
Journal Article, Book Review
Peer reviewed
Children as readers of picture books and the ways they respond to, and make meaning from, such texts are the focus of this article, which reports on a small-scale study undertaken in Norway and ...Wales, UK. The theoretical framing of the research draws on concepts of the multimodal ensemble in picture books and of the reading event as part of a social practice. The research design was developed from the team’s analysis of two texts,
Pappa
by Svein Nyhus (
1998
) and
What does Daddy Do
? by Rachel Bright (
2009
). Twenty-four children, who were 7 and 8 years old, took part in the study. This was built around two reading events for each book, staged as an immediate response and as a guided response. The data subsequently collected were analysed according to three overarching organisational principles, as
book world
,
real world
and
play world
. For both
Daddy
and
Pappa
, the first reading event showed the children’s responses were mainly directed towards exploring the
book world
. On the second reading event, references to the
real world
predominated for
Daddy
, while for
Pappa
the
book world
was again dominant. Across both reading events and for both books, the
play
world
revealed those occasions when the children expanded the meaning of the story, demonstrating an inventive ability to play with the text. Overall, the children’s responses moved fluidly across the three worlds, showing them to be energetically making connections between the reading, their experience of books and their own lives.
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This article explores the responses of readers who encountered Andrea Levy's novel Small Island through the 2007 project Small Island Read. Through an analysis of the pleasure and discomfort ...experienced by these readers, it suggests that Small Island was able to keep them in the thrall of its narrative arc, while simultaneously challenging them to consider the stereotypes distorting their perceptions of others and while conveying uncomfortable information to them, such as the disparity between the representation of the “mother country” to colonial subjects and lived reality in wartime England. The responses also furnish evidence of the ways literary features can both facilitate and obstruct a text's transformative potential, and how Levy's text helped readers to overcome destabilizing effects such as chronological shifts and use of dialect. It argues that the reception of Small Island raises important questions about the divide between academic and other kinds of reading within postcolonial studies.
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The implication of reading competence in developing reflection and thinking is an important issue for student teachers to consider. Reading is also a competence, in which the language at the disposal ...of a person is included, to use for social development and mutual understanding. This article is based on a case study and is concerned with how some student teachers in South Africa and Sweden conceive of themselves as readers from child to student and the value of language for reading competence. In the article we reflect on different reading practices in the two countries. The data consist of 25 written narratives with the theme, I as a reader, written by student teachers in South Africa and Sweden. By using a socio-cultural basis for understanding reading, one can identify six reading practices concerning the students' reading events in the narratives. One reading practice, critical reading, is more explicit in the South African students' narratives than in the Swedish students' narratives.
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