In Volume III, as in Volumes I and II, the classic topics of reading are included--from
vocabulary and comprehension to reading instruction in the classroom--and, in addition …

Nova edição de uma das obras mais importantes de Alberto Manguel, agora pela
Companhia de Bolso. Leitor voraz e ciumento, um grão-vizir da Pérsia carregava sua …

The end of deep reading is a commonplace in public debates, whenever societies talk about
youth, books, and the digital age. In contrast to this, we show for the first time and in detail …

This is the first major book in English on literary reading to be based on empirical methods.
Moving the focus away from interpretation to the experience of literary texts, these studies …

"" To be continued..."" Whether these words fall at a season-ending episode of Star Trek or a
TV commercial flirtation between coffee-loving neighbors, true fans find them impossible to …

This second edition of An Introduction to Book History provides a comprehensive critical
introduction to the development of the book and print culture. Each fully revised and updated …

Reports of the book's death have been greatly exaggerated. Books are flourishing in the
Internet era—widely discussed and reviewed in online readers' forums and publicized …

The most common definitions of popular culture suffer from a presentist bias and cannot be
applied to pre‐industrial and pre‐capitalist societies. A survey reveals serious conceptual …

Victorian sensation novels, with their compulsive plots of crime, transgression and mystery,
were bestsellers. Deborah Wynne analyses the fascinating relationships between sensation …

Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty.
Intriguing, rigorous, and vital, they are nevertheless rooted within three major academic …