Crisis Time and Rereading

Ben Davies*, Christina Lupton, Johanne Gormsen Schmidt

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Abstract

This chapter draws on ethnographic evidence of readers revisiting favourite texts in 2020 to suggest that times of crisis might be characterised by the practices of rereading as much as by the demand for novelty, survival manuals, or news. Engaging with a range of academic arguments for and against the affordances of rereading, we suggest that it is crucial to see the activity as one defined, in times of crisis, by context. Not only, we show, do new experiences of danger and crisis play into the desire for familiar texts but also diverse media formats and forms of experience make these old texts new in ways that we might not expect.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelTemporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures
RedaktørerSybille Baumbach, Birgit Neumann
UdgivelsesstedNew York
ForlagRoutledge
Publikationsdato2024
Sider194-209
Kapitel12
ISBN (Trykt)9781032390307, 9781032390376
ISBN (Elektronisk)9781003348122
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2024

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