NEW IN PRINT – AJCS Vol 9.2 – The Cultural Sociology of Reading


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AJCS Volume 9, issue 2, June 2021

Special issue on the Cultural Sociology of Reading

Issue editors:
María Angélica Thumala Olave & Jeffrey C. Alexander

Managing Editor:
Anne Marie Champagne

7 articles in this issue:

1. Exploring the sacrality of reading as a social practice

María Angélica Thumala Olave, Editorial, pp. 99–114

2.  The felt value of reading zines

Ash Watson and Andy Bennett, Original Article, pp. 115–149

3.  Spatial reading: evaluative frameworks and the making of literary authority

Günter Leypoldt, Original Article, pp. 150–176

4. The politics of happily-ever-after: romance genre fiction as aesthetic public sphere

Anna Michelson, Original Article, pp. 177–210

5. Knowing through feeling: the aesthetic structure of a novel and the iconic experience of reading

Jan Váňa, Original Article, pp. 211–241

6. Customer reviews of ‘highbrow’ literature: a comparative reception study of The Inheritance of Loss and The White Tiger

Daniel Allington, Original Article, pp. 242–268

7.  Reviewing strategies and the normalization of uncertain texts

Álvaro Santana-Acuña, Original Article, pp. 269–292

 

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