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Researching literary reading as social practice

The Open University, UK, D.Allington{at}open.ac.uk

Joan Swann

The Open University, UK

This article first discusses ‘the reader’ as generally conceived within literary studies (including stylistics), grounding its claims with an empirical analysis of articles published in Language and Literature from 2004 to 2008. It then surveys the many ways in which real readers have been empirically investigated within cultural studies, the history of reading, and cultural sociology. Lastly, it introduces the remaining papers in this special issue as contributions to the study of language and literature.

Key Words: empirical literary studies • history of reading • history of the book • ideal reader • implied reader • reader response • real readers • reception • stylistics

Language and Literature, Vol. 18, No. 3, 219-230 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0963947009105850


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