The Common Reader Volume 2

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448181933
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Common Reader: Volume 2 written by Virginia Woolf and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others'. So Virginia Woolf described the 'common reader' for whom she wrote her second series of essays. Here she turns her brilliant eye on novels and poetry from John Donne to Christina Rossetti and Mary Wollstonecraft as well as many others. This is an informal, informative and witty celebration of our literary and social heritage by a writer of genius.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Bibliotech Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Common Reader written by Virginia Woolf and published by Bibliotech Press. This book was released on 1925 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A far cry from her wistful and introspective fiction, Woolf's essays on literature read as lively, droll, and conversational. These essays focus on famous literary figures as well as the craft of fiction; written in confident but inviting prose designed specifically for what Woolf called the common reader, they interweave biography, wit, social commentary, and literary analysis. Woolf typically seems disinterested in offering definitive arguments or reaching grand conclusions. She instead concerns herself with viewing a given writer or topic from several interpretive angles so that she might reveal as much about her subject as she can in a single essay, to a broad audience consisting of non-academic readers. Favorite essays included "Notes on an Elizabethan Play," "Modern Fiction," "Outlines," and "How it Strikes a Contemporary." (Michael)

Author : Gene Burd
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Urban Communication Reader written by Gene Burd and published by Hampton Press (NJ). This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the notion that the push toward marketization is the central force restructuring the communications landscape. This book examines the consequences of this development for the constitution of public culture. It analyzes the core institutional processes of marketization.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book “The” Common Reader written by Virginia Woolf and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William G. Brozo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780133268171
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pearson Common Core Literature written by William G. Brozo and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Pettit
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820322278
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Textual Studies and the Common Reader written by Alexander Pettit and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textual Studies and the Common Reader collects eleven original essays by editors of literary texts and theorists concerned about the implications of what such editors do. The volume's organizing theme is textual studies, the domain of which, in one contributor’s words, is the "genesis, transmission, and editing of texts." The contributors seek to extend the discussion about textual studies beyond any narrow professional scope; thus, none of the essays assumes any training in textual studies. Also, the focus of the book is on the literary genre most familiar to most readers: the novel. Authors discussed include Willa Cather, Joseph Conrad, Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, D. H. Lawrence, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Many people read literary works, but few do so with a steady sense of their constructedness as texts--of the ways in which "genesis, transmission, and editing" have shaped them as conveyors of meaning. This book shows that the experience of reading is more rewarding for such awareness.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Common Reader. Ser. 1.2 written by Virginia Woolf and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adelene Buckland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135196190X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Return to the Common Reader written by Adelene Buckland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of book history. Putting readers at the centre of literary culture, Altick anticipated-and helped produce-fifty years of scholarly inquiry into the ways and means by which the Victorians read. Now, A Return to the Common Reader asks what Altick's concept of the 'common reader' actually means in the wake of a half-century of research. Digging deep into unusual and eclectic archives and hitherto-overlooked sources, its authors give new understanding to the masses of newly literate readers who picked up books in the Victorian period. They find readers in prisons, in the barracks, and around the world, and they remind us of the power of those forgotten readers to find forbidden texts, shape new markets, and drive the production of new reading material across a century. Inspired and informed by Altick's seminal work, A Return to the Common Reader is a cutting-edge collection which dramatically reconfigures our understanding of the ordinary Victorian readers whose efforts and choices changed our literary culture forever.

Author : Claire Battershill
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319472119
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities written by Claire Battershill and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the gap between print and digital scholarly approaches by combining both praxis and theory in a case study of a new international collaborative digital project, the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP). MAPP is an international collaborative digital project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, that uses digital tools to showcase archival traces of twentieth-century publishing. The twenty-first century has witnessed, and is living through, some of the most dynamic changes ever experienced in the publishing industry, arguably altering our very understanding of what it means to read a book. This book brings to both general readers and scholarly researchers a new way of accessing, and thereby assessing, the historical meanings of change within the twentieth-century publication industry by building a resource which organises, interacts with, and uses historical information about book culture to narrate the continuities and discontinuities in reading and publishing over the last century.

Author : Amber Jenkins
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031324919
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf, Literary Materiality, and Feminist Aesthetics written by Amber Jenkins and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book interrogates the relationship between the material conditions of Woolf's writing practices and her work as a printer and publisher at the Hogarth Press. In bringing to light her embodied literary processes, from drafting and composition to hand-printing and binding, this study foregrounds the interactions between Woolf's modernist experimentation and the visual and material aspects of her printed works. By drawing on the field of print culture, as well as the materialist turn in Woolf scholarship, it explores how her experience in print, book-design and publishing underlines her experimental writing, and how her literary texts are conditioned by the context of their production. This book, therefore, provides new ways of reading Woolf's modernism in the context of twentieth-century print, material, and visual cultures. By suggesting that Woolf's work at the Hogarth Press sensitized her to the significant role the visual aspects of a text play in its system of representation, it also considers the extent to which materiality informs both her work, as well as her engagement with Bloomsbury formalist aesthetics, which often exaggerate the distinction between visual and verbal modes of expression.