新书推介 | 《书籍的双重生命:塑造与重塑读者》出版

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McDonald, Peter. The Double Life of Books: Making and Re-Making the Reader, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. 

About the book

The Double Life of Books confronts a central challenge for the history of reading: how to investigate and then describe the elusive process of what the leading book historian Robert Darnton calls ‘inner appropriation.’ It does so by bringing two voices together for the first time: the so-called ‘ordinary reader’ who began life as a devotee of Dr Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat and the literature professor who writes about the history of media and reading. Ranging across world literatures in English since the 1890s and drawing on the latest research into the neuroscience of the reading brain, The Double Life of Books is at once an exercise in materialist autobibliobiography, asking what it means to be a living reader in our multimedia age, and a sustained reflection on academic professionalization, raising new questions about the limits of disciplinarity and critique.
About the Author
Peter D. McDonald was born in Cape Town in 1964 and educated in South Africa and England.He is a Fellow of St. Hugh's College and Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of Oxford.
Contents
Preface: Two Voices
Acknowledgements
Figures
First Voice
1. ‘The History of Sex’: orality, literacy, and the living brain
2. ‘The Lure of Literature’: books, histories, and the state
3. ‘Scant Cream’: sense, nonsense, and the reader re-made
4. My Finnegans Wake: Like HCE, Rhodes Must Fall
Second Voice
Part I: Extra-disciplinary: Questions of Method
1. Getting over discipline envy
2. Ideas of the book and experiences of literature: after Theory?
3. Reclaiming the Future of Book History from an African Perspective
4. Elton John, libel, and the perils of close reading
5. The Worldliness of Books
Part II: Reading Envelopes: Four examples
6. Re-publishing Yeats’s ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ in the 1890s
7. Re-reading Pound’s ‘In a station of the metro’
8. Calder’s Beckett
9. Once upon a time in a bookshop: The Satanic Verses revisited
Bibliography
Index
Reference: Edinburgh University Press


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