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Introduction
Get PDFThe introduction provides an overview of the main issues informing current analysis of bookshelves during the COVID-19 pandemic. It starts by sketching out some of the main theoretical frameworks relevant to investigating the cultural phenomenon of bookshelves in the pandemic. It then surveys trends in pandemic reading and the rise of bibliotherapy since the start of the pandemic, before examining the ways in which lockdown induced home working has blurred the boundaries between private and public spheres. This is followed by a detailed discussion of the bookshelf as a construct of global neoliberalism which draws attention to increasing socioeconomic inequality, both between the Global North and the Global South, and within individual nation states. The introduction then outlines the contents of the volume with brief precis of the 12 chapters; summarizes areas of investigation not covered in the volume; and finishes by gesturing to research questions and issues for future consideration
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An Examination of Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic as a “Liminal Space”
Get PDFIn the space of a few weeks in 2020, the rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus into a global pandemic has changed the way we work, live, interact and communicate with one another. One highly unexpected result of the massive rise in homeworking has been an extraordinary exposure of domestic bookshelves, which in the famous words of Amanda Hess, have become the “quarantine’s hottest accessory” (New York Times, May 1, 2020). Personal bookshelves had hitherto been jealously guarded, a marker for personal taste and shared only with the select few invited into their owners’ households and allowed to scan the titles on display. This physically delimited space has now been unleashed upon the world: where once few people could look at the books on our shelves, now theoretically, almost everyone can. The pandemic bookshelf has accidently been fashioned into the most ubiquitous liminal zone anywhere: it is the ostensibly private and personal backdrop for the staging of our public, digitally mediated, professional existence. Drawing upon theoretical perspectives from anthropology, psychology and literary theory, this chapter explores the many ways in which the private-public bookshelf has become the cultural liminal space par excellence during the COVID-19 pandemic
A Bookshelf of the World: Bringing Students’ Books Inside the Classroom—A Means for Epistemic Equality?
Get PDFThis chapter, as a pedagogical case study, demonstrates how a master’s degree course on the material book at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, that ran from September to November 2020, was adapted to online teaching. Instead of using the University Library’s vast collection of editions of Milton or Bunyan, students worked with books that they had in their own homes. Using the personal libraries of the students, the participants explored how, and by whom, books are made and read in different parts of the world. I discuss what it means for students to share their private books in a classroom context. Does it make them feel involved, or will some students feel embarrassed, pressured, or excluded? I also explore what the use of students’ books means for teaching book history and for pedagogy in general. To what extent will it help diversify the curriculum, put students in charge, and offer better access to learning materials? It turns out that this approach did not necessarily improve access to learning materials for students from abroad, since they do not have their personal library with them. Allowing students to pick books that fit their own taste and background did, however, help build a community, widen the canon, and give students a sense of being in charge. It also proved to be a viable alternative to studying the material book in a library.</p
Literatur und Recht: Materialität
No full textLiteratur hat nicht selten Recht als ihren Gegenstand, und Recht regelt Literatur auf vielfältige Weise. Diese gegenseitige Vergegenständlichung, zusammengefasst unter dem Begriff der „Materialität“, geschieht in verschiedenen Formen und erfüllt unterschiedliche Funktionen. Daraus ergibt sich eine Fülle von Fragen zur normativen Qualität des Rechts und zu den kulturellen Reflexionsleistungen der Literatur. Der Band fragt daneben auch konkreter nach der Rechtsförmigkeit des Fiktiven, der narrativen Ordnung von Rechtstexten, der historischen Wandelbarkeit des Verhältnisses von Recht und Literatur oder den rechtlichen Bedingungen des Buchmarktes. Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch
Book Clubs and Book Commerce
Get PDFIn the twentieth century, cumulative millions of readers received books by mail from clubs like Book-of-the-Month Club. This Element offers an introduction to book clubs as a distribution channel and cultural phenomenon, and shows that book clubs and book commerce are linked inextricably. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
Peter Mendelsund and David J. Alworth: The Look of the Book. Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edges of Literature (2020)
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Panther, Rotfuchs & Co. : rororo-Taschenbücher für junge Zielgruppen im gesellschaftlichen Umbruch der 1970er und 1980er Jahre
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