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oapen-20.500.12657-248802022-07-21T07:53:32Z How We Read Heller, Kaitlin Akbari, Suzanne Conklin Atiya, Alexandra Bahr, Stephanie Brouillard , Lochin Bryant, Brantley Akbari, Suzanne Conklin Dumitrescu, Irina Hammer, Jessica Heller, Kaitlin Jordan, Jennifer Piuma, Chris Hsy, Jonathan Schut, Kirsty Wilson, Anna reading writing libraries poetics memory university life literary studies bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general "What do we do when we read? Reading can be an act of consumption or an act of creation. Our “work reading” overlaps with our “pleasure reading,” and yet these two modes of reading engage with different parts of the self. It is sometimes passive, sometimes active, and can even be an embodied form. The contributors to this volume share their own histories of reading in order to reveal the shared pleasure that lies in this most solitary of acts – which is also, paradoxically, the act of most complete plenitude. Many of the contributors engage in academic writing, and several publish in other genres, including poetry and fiction; some contributors maintain an active online presence. All are engaged with reading’s capacity to stimulate and excite as well as to frustrate and confuse. The synergies and tensions of online reading and print reading animate these thirteen contributions, generating a sense of shared community. Together, the authors open their libraries to us. This is how we read." 2019-07-26 23:55 2020-01-23 14:09:07 2020-04-01T10:12:31Z 2020-04-01T10:12:31Z 2019 book 1005224 OCN: 1117837615 9781950192328 9781950192311 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24880 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 0259.1.00.pdf punctum books Dead Letter Office 10.21983/P3.0259.1.00 10.21983/P3.0259.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9781950192328 9781950192311 ScholarLed Dead Letter Office 186 Brooklyn, NY open access
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"What do we do when we read?
Reading can be an act of consumption or an act of creation. Our “work reading” overlaps with our “pleasure reading,” and yet these two modes of reading engage with different parts of the self. It is sometimes passive, sometimes active, and can even be an embodied form.
The contributors to this volume share their own histories of reading in order to reveal the shared pleasure that lies in this most solitary of acts – which is also, paradoxically, the act of most complete plenitude. Many of the contributors engage in academic writing, and several publish in other genres, including poetry and fiction; some contributors maintain an active online presence. All are engaged with reading’s capacity to stimulate and excite as well as to frustrate and confuse. The synergies and tensions of online reading and print reading animate these thirteen contributions, generating a sense of shared community. Together, the authors open their libraries to us. This is how we read."
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