Researching literary reading as social practice

Allington, Daniel and Swann, Joan (2009). Researching literary reading as social practice. Language and Literature, 18(3) pp. 219–230.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947009105850

Abstract

This article first discusses 'the reader' as generally conceived within literary studies (including stylistics), grounding its claims with an empirical analysis of articles published in Language and Literature from 2004 to 2008. It then surveys the many ways in which real readers have been empirically investigated within cultural studies, the history of reading, and cultural sociology. Lastly, it introduces the remaining papers in this special issue as contributions to the study of language and literature

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• Item ORO ID
• 17925
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 0963-9470
• Keywords
• empirical literary studies; history of reading; history of the book; ideal reader; implied reader; reader response; real readers; reception; stylistics
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS)
  Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics > English Language & Applied Linguistics
  Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics
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• Daniel Allington