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How We Read: Tales, Fury, Nothing, Sound

How We Read: Tales, Fury, Nothing, Sound

Akbari, Suzanne Conklin
Heller, Kaitlin

Paperback

Letters & EssaysLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1950192318
ISBN13: 9781950192311
Publisher: Punctum Books
Published: Jul 13 2019
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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.

Table of Contents //

Suzanne Conklin Akbari / Introduction: Practicing Reading, Reading PracticeIrina Dumitrescu / Reading LessonsAnna Wilson / I Like Knowing What is Going to HappenSuzanne Conklin Akbari / Read It Out LoudJessica Hammer / From When We ReadLochin Brouillard / De Vita Lochini, or Commentary on a Life of ReadingChris Piuma / How I ReadStephanie Bahr / How I Read, a History; or 'San Francisco Banking Contains No Trans Fats'Alexandra Atiya / Text to SpeechJonathan Hsy / Phantom SoundsKirsty Schut / On Not Being a Voracious ReaderKaitlin Heller / Sleeping Under the MountainJennifer Jordan / Reading to Forget, Reading to RememberBrantley Bryant / Best Practice Tips and Strategies for Academic Reading to Maximize Your Time and ProductivityKaitlin Heller / Afterword: The Parlor Scene

KAITLIN HELLER is a postdoctoral fellow at Syracuse University and a former assistant editor at Del Rey Books. Between teaching courses on folklore and medievalism, Heller designs games, watches Midsomer Murders, and does the bidding of one large cat.

SUZANNE CONKLIN AKBARI is Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, but would rather be working on her new project on medieval ideas of periodization, The Shape of Time, and/or lying on the beach in North Truro. Her books include Seeing Through the Veil: Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory (Toronto, 2004), Idols in the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450 (Cornell, 2009), and four collections of essays, including How We Write: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blank Page (punctum, 2015). She is also a co-editor of the Norton Anthology of World Literature (4th ed.), and a master of structured procrastination.

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