Jeudi 25 février 2021 (online)
Organisatrices: Sandrine Sorlin & Virginie Iché
A post-conference seminar on Addressing Readers
Title: “Writing the Reader” (see Affiche SEM Birke 250221)
Abstract:
The history of the English novel is also a history of shifting views about reading practices. In this talk, I argue that novelistic representations of readers – and in particular, the type of the “obsessive reader” – have, through the centuries, been used to reflect on the potential of reading as a cultural practice and, ultimately, to promote the idea of the special value of novel reading in particular. Case studies include Charlotte Lennox` The Female Quixote (1752)and Alan Bennett`s The Uncommon Reader (2007).
Dorothee’s powerpoint: Birke_ppt
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
mdrugeon (4 mai 2021). Dorothee Birke (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), “Writing the Reader” Études Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone. Consulté le 19 février 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/o7yu