Project MUSE®: Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History.daily12026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 5 (2013) - vol.15 (2023)Latest Articles: Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, HistoryTWOProject MUSE®Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History2155-78882168-0604Latest articles in Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Editors' Introduction
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902722
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This issue, the fifteenth volume of Reception, is also our fifth special-topics issue. Guest edited by Amy Blair and Ika Willis, this issue approaches the temporalities of reading reception from a wide variety of disciplinary and theoretical—and experiential, and anecdotal—directions. (The impulse to offer a temporal rather than a spatial metaphor here ["durations?"] is strong, but its unavailability is one of the issues that subtends this volume). As Blair and Willis's introduction points out, reception studies have not always been sensitive to temporalities of reading, but it does not follow that reception cannot trace reading time, as some scholars have suggested. Rather, they contend that reception is precisely
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/602/image/coversmallEditors' Introduction2023-07-24text/htmlen-USEditors' Introduction2023-07-242023TWOProject MUSE®82462026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002023-07-24Over Head: Notes on the River
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902723
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Room 6c21, at the University of Canberra, in the suburb of Bruce.12.30–13.30, Monday 29 August 2022Paul Collis, Jen Crawford, Paul Magee and an Overhead Projector; with Subhash Jaireth, Vahri McKenzie, and Russell Smith.I come from Aotearoa New Zealand and my background is Pakeha. So I'm a white New Zealander with I suppose mostly Irish ancestry. I arrived here in Ngunnawal country about seven years ago.I give a little bit of background like that because it's part of how we begin in the place that I'm from in Aotearoa New Zealand. And I'm acknowledging that background as a preface to acknowledging Country, the Country that we're on now, Ngunnawal Country.I'm also acknowledging the ancestors that have held the work
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/602/image/coversmallOver Head: Notes on the River2023-07-24text/htmlen-USOver Head: Notes on the River2023-07-242023TWOProject MUSE®457742026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002023-07-24The Theory and Practice of Reception Study: Reading Race and Gender in Twain, Faulkner, Ellison, and Morrison by Philip Goldstein (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902724
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Philip Goldstein, a founder of the Reception Study Society, provides a comprehensive statement on the field today in his new book, The Theory and Practice of Reception Study: Reading Race and Gender in Twain, Faulkner, Ellison, and Morrison. He makes a convincing argument for the value of acknowledging readers' institutional contexts, which he shows are often overlooked by scholars of the history and sociology of reading as well as in canonical reader–response criticism of the 1970s and 1980s. But Goldstein's practice of the theory in the book—the recognition of established critical practices and their influence—lacks the strength of his thesis. This is not the consequence of his smart choice to explore the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/602/image/coversmallThe Theory and Practice of Reception Study: Reading Race and Gender in Twain, Faulkner, Ellison, and Morrison by Philip Goldstein (review)2023-07-24text/htmlen-USThe Theory and Practice of Reception Study: Reading Race and Gender in Twain, Faulkner, Ellison, and Morrison by Philip Goldstein (review)2023-07-242023TWOProject MUSE®124252026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002023-07-24Precious: Identity, Adaptation, and the African-American Youth Film by Katherine Whitehurst (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902725
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Examining Lee Daniels' 2009 film Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, Katherine Whitehurst in Precious: Identity, Adaptation and the African-American Youth Film illuminates the narrowness of white, Western storytelling frameworks. Whitehurst explores how those frameworks, coupled with stereotypes and controlling images, inform readings of the protagonist, Claireece Precious Jones, by characters and audiences alike. She presents the ways Black girlhood, poverty, trauma, and violence depicted in Sapphire's 1996 novel Push are represented and reimagined in Daniels' film adaptation. As Whitehurst argues, the novel and film "work within stereotypical framings of the Black community and broader understandings
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/602/image/coversmallPrecious: Identity, Adaptation, and the African-American Youth Film by Katherine Whitehurst (review)2023-07-24text/htmlen-USPrecious: Identity, Adaptation, and the African-American Youth Film by Katherine Whitehurst (review)2023-07-242023TWOProject MUSE®121592026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002023-07-24Unbelief in Interwar Literary Culture: Doubting Modernisms by Suzanne Hobson (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902726
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It mostly goes without saying that modernism was, by definition, an era of religious doubt and disillusionment. It was in my discussion notes for years—"post-Nietzschean: God is dead; post-Darwinian: humans are not located a little lower than Milton's angels."But in this fascinating new book by Suzanne Hobson of Queen Mary University of London, a different sense of the era emerges, one where committed secularism could invite critical sanctions and where open unbelief often met with polite silence from literary modernists. Hobson's focus in Unbelief in Interwar Literary Culture: Doubting Modernisms hones in on authors whose works were praised and promoted by the secularist cause, particularly by the Rationalist
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/602/image/coversmallUnbelief in Interwar Literary Culture: Doubting Modernisms by Suzanne Hobson (review)2023-07-24text/htmlen-USUnbelief in Interwar Literary Culture: Doubting Modernisms by Suzanne Hobson (review)2023-07-242023TWOProject MUSE®86222026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002023-07-24Winning Women's Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture and Consumerism through the "Ladies Home Journal" and "Amerika." by Diana Cucuz (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902727
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Diana Cucuz's Winning Women's Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture and Consumerism through the "Ladies Home Journal" and "Amerika" (2023) is an exciting study about the intersection of gender, geopolitics, and print culture. Focused on the ways in which magazines were used both in the U.S. and in the U.S.S.R. to sell a particular idea of American womanhood, and by extension, democracy, the book convincingly argues that gender was a key front on which the Cold War was waged in the post-Stalin era. This book adds to the University of Toronto Press's impressive catalogue of Cold War scholarship and puts archival research into conversation with key concepts from Cold War, gender, and print culture studies.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/602/image/coversmallWinning Women's Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture and Consumerism through the "Ladies Home Journal" and "Amerika." by Diana Cucuz (review)2023-07-24text/htmlen-USWinning Women's Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture and Consumerism through the "Ladies Home Journal" and "Amerika." by Diana Cucuz (review)2023-07-242023TWOProject MUSE®128222026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002023-07-24Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America by Denise Gigante (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902728
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The term "association copy," for bibliophiles and bibliographers alike, holds special significance: it refers to copies of books once owned, used, read, or else fleetingly possessed by the famous, especially literary celebrities. And in my own work and research, it's a crucial designation. I am part of a committee of scholars, curators, and benefactors who have been appointed to oversee the acquisition of new materials for the library at The Mount, the historic home of the American author Edith Wharton. There, at Wharton's storied Massachusetts estate, one can find the remains of her personal library. The books Wharton owned and read qualify as association copies; so, too, do personal, signed copies of the books
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/602/image/coversmallBook Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America by Denise Gigante (review)2023-07-24text/htmlen-USBook Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America by Denise Gigante (review)2023-07-242023TWOProject MUSE®105442026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002023-07-24Reading for Efficiency in Ancient Rome: The Case of Pliny the Elder
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902729
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It is a commonplace that the ancient Greeks and Romans gave no priority to efficiency in their reading habits. Literary texts, which meant medical texts just as well as history or poetry, were often read by a lector, and often among companions. Sociability and reading aloud were so common in fact that a tendentious 1927 gathering and analysis of evidence by Hungarian scholar József Balogh persuaded almost three generations of Classicists to believe and teach that silent reading never, or hardly ever, occurred.1With that canard put to rest, we now see the ancient preference for a social context and for leisurely, aloud, reading in different lighting, as organic parts of a cultural system. Ancient literary texts were
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/602/image/coversmallReading for Efficiency in Ancient Rome: The Case of Pliny the Elder2023-07-24text/htmlen-USReading for Efficiency in Ancient Rome: The Case of Pliny the Elder2023-07-242023TWOProject MUSE®372792026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002023-07-24Wild Intelligence: Poets' Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America by M. C. Kinniburgh (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902730
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In her well-known sequence "Twenty-One Love Poems," Adrienne Rich describes a dream she had about "writing for days, / drafts, carbons, poems are scattered everywhere" (1978). Thanks to collecting practices pioneered by twentieth-century curators who initiated the archival preservation of literary manuscripts, those drafts and carbon copies might well end up in a university library somewhere. In Rich's case, at Harvard's Schlesinger Library, where her papers include typescripts of later poems. But what became of the "apartment full of books" Rich mentions in "Twenty-One Love Poems"? Or the book collection of her writer friend Kenneth who arranged his volumes so he could "look at Blake and Kafka while he types"?
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/602/image/coversmallWild Intelligence: Poets' Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America by M. C. Kinniburgh (review)2023-07-24text/htmlen-USWild Intelligence: Poets' Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America by M. C. Kinniburgh (review)2023-07-242023TWOProject MUSE®122992026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002023-07-24Understanding Reddit by Elliot T. Panek (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902731
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Vernacular reception is a difficult field to map and from which to draw useful information. Analysts have relied upon published and unpublished letters, quotations from ordinary people found in other kinds of materials (newspaper reporting, archives), and various kinds of field studies to explore how ordinary people understood and responded to novels, films, and other media. Frequently, scholars and scientists had access to mass audiences only sensed from bestseller lists and ticket sales. How to get beyond popularity, especially when measured only by units sold, has been a difficult task.And then along came the Internet and its bulletin boards, forums, websites, and social media platforms. What to make of these
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/602/image/coversmallUnderstanding Reddit by Elliot T. Panek (review)2023-07-24text/htmlen-USUnderstanding Reddit by Elliot T. Panek (review)2023-07-242023TWOProject MUSE®99032026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002023-07-24Reading Novels during the Covid-19 Pandemic by Ben Davies, Christina Lupton, and Johanne Gormsen Schmidt (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902732
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This intriguing and unconventional monograph is the central output of a recent research project led by literary scholars Ben Davies and Christina Lupton, which considered the habits of Danish and UK readers during the early phase (2020–21) of the Covid-19 pandemic. The book is unconventional in a number of ways: First, the project leaders achieved an extremely quick turnaround from conception of the study and securing funding from the Denmark-based Carlsberg Foundation to conducting the research, including 860 surveys and about 75 in-depth interviews, and publication of a co-written monograph. This quick turnaround (and, unfortunately, the ongoing pandemic mutations) contributes to the book's atypical timeliness.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/602/image/coversmallReading Novels during the Covid-19 Pandemic by Ben Davies, Christina Lupton, and Johanne Gormsen Schmidt (review)2023-07-24text/htmlen-USReading Novels during the Covid-19 Pandemic by Ben Davies, Christina Lupton, and Johanne Gormsen Schmidt (review)2023-07-242023TWOProject MUSE®106422026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002023-07-24"To do a little and well": Anne Lister's Reading Routine
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902734
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Popular discussions of reading often lament the loss of time for sitting down with a good book. This discourse implicitly imagines a past golden age of undistracted reading, but recent book history has begun to expose this nostalgic intellectual idyll as a myth. This short paper will contribute to this re-evaluation of idealized retrospective narratives about reading by introducing an historical reader, Anne Lister (1791–1840), who read avidly and left behind extensive documentation of their reading in their diaries.1 By briefly examining some examples of Lister's own discussions of "reading time," this paper draws a tentative line between reading, time, and class anxieties at the turn of the nineteenth
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/602/image/coversmall"To do a little and well": Anne Lister's Reading Routine2023-07-24text/htmlen-US"To do a little and well": Anne Lister's Reading Routine2023-07-242023TWOProject MUSE®251302026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002023-07-24Integrating Reading Time into Family Life: An Essay in Five Acts
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902735
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A crisp winter morning. MOTHER is walking 11-year-old DAUGHTER to school. We can just hear the rhythm of the Pacific Ocean and the muted clang of heavy industry in the background.
MOTHER
Look at that beautiful blue sky!
DAUGHTER
Stop being such a mad poet!
The art of interpreting our lives through language—both spoken and written—is just as much a part of the domestic sphere as it is the academic and the creative. If, as Wittgenstein suggests, "to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life,"1 how might the language shared between family members shape the way they interact with each other, and how might reading—especially reading aloud together—shape this shared language? Could we understand time
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/602/image/coversmallIntegrating Reading Time into Family Life: An Essay in Five Acts2023-07-24text/htmlen-USIntegrating Reading Time into Family Life: An Essay in Five Acts2023-07-242023TWOProject MUSE®254482026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002023-07-24"Me Time": Motherhood, Reading, and Myths of Leisure
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902736
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A quick Google search for the phrase "me time" yields up a range of mommy-blog think pieces on this crucial ingredient of sanity and self-care.1 In heteronormative households wherein the invisible labor load is lopsided, often creating a "leisure gap" between men and women, mothers are encouraged to recapture a discrete sense of "me" in short snippets of time.2 Mothers raising children without partners are more likely to publish pieces criticizing the entire notion of "me time"; there is simply no time. In the mothering metadiscourse, time is the key ingredient in the "me" that is required to mother well. But to whom does "me time" belong, after all? How might it be cultivated and to what ends?Reading for
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/602/image/coversmall"Me Time": Motherhood, Reading, and Myths of Leisure2023-07-24text/htmlen-US"Me Time": Motherhood, Reading, and Myths of Leisure2023-07-242023TWOProject MUSE®462972026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002023-07-24Guest Editors' Introduction: Reading Time: or, TL; DR
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902737
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This special issue of Reception had its genesis in the time of Twitter B. C. E. (Before the Coup by Elon), where we would both periodically add our microblog posts to the infinite scroll, complaining that we had no time to read—meaning, of course, to read something other than Twitter. Or email. Or spreadsheets.Our laments attracted many sympathetic responses, including a photograph of an orange Penguin edition of Kafka's The Trial propped on a treadmill into whose cup-holder a spiral-bound notebook and pen had been awkwardly slotted. As we went on, we became increasingly interested in the strange way in which reading—the kind of immersive reading we meant, the attentive reading and rereading of scholarly books and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/602/image/coversmallGuest Editors' Introduction: Reading Time: or, TL; DR2023-07-24text/htmlen-USGuest Editors' Introduction: Reading Time: or, TL; DR2023-07-242023TWOProject MUSE®348572026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002023-07-24When Your Job Is to Read After Work
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902738
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In 2022, we spent the early winter traveling between Danish and English towns—Coventry, Odense, Copenhagen, Cambridge, Portsmouth—interviewing a wide sample of scholars in history, literature, and philosophy. We had funding from the Council for the Defense of British Universities to study the formats, practices, and settings shaping these reading-centric disciplines. This made us, we joked, like biologists setting out to observe a rare breed of primates in the wild. What do they do? How do different branches of the tribe collect and manage their harvest of information? How do they survive in the harsh climate of the university? How do they teach their young? As we spent time on the road, the joke gathered weight
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/602/image/coversmallWhen Your Job Is to Read After Work2023-07-24text/htmlen-USWhen Your Job Is to Read After Work2023-07-242023TWOProject MUSE®268962026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002023-07-24The Labor of Academic Journals: Or, Is Anyone Going to Read This?
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902739
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In the arts and humanities, reading is both an obligation and an indulgence—on the one hand, reading another article or book chapter when you should be writing is prime procrastination; on the other, reading is a fundamental prerequisite to knowing the field, situating oneself in it, and completing responsible research. Reading, then, in the professional humanities context, constitutes a strange, unplumbable reservoir. Some might pour more into it by publishing more in any given span of time, but even in relatively small academic fields like theater and performance studies (to say nothing of our aspirations to "interdisciplinarity"), one simply cannot read everything. This condition is apprehended acutely by
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/602/image/coversmallThe Labor of Academic Journals: Or, Is Anyone Going to Read This?2023-07-24text/htmlen-USThe Labor of Academic Journals: Or, Is Anyone Going to Read This?2023-07-242023TWOProject MUSE®148112026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002023-07-24Reading on the Dark Side: Or, the Productive Pleasures of the Scholarly Administrator
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902740
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, when I was a visiting assistant professor in the English Department of a regional university in the U.S., an associate professor of marketing asked me with open curiosity, "So what's research for you, reading a few books?" Fast forward fifteen years to my discovery, as a tenured professor moving into administration at another university, that for some faculty, references to administration as "the dark side" are not metaphorical. From the beginning of my administrative career, however, I committed to continued growth and development as an academic affairs administrator and as a literary scholar. My administrative qualifications allowed me to move to a campus of a Big Ten
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/602/image/coversmallReading on the Dark Side: Or, the Productive Pleasures of the Scholarly Administrator2023-07-24text/htmlen-USReading on the Dark Side: Or, the Productive Pleasures of the Scholarly Administrator2023-07-242023TWOProject MUSE®314562026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002023-07-24"Read Much?"—"Depends. Who Wants to Know?": A Closer Look at Time as One Possible Parameter to Quantify European Reading Habits
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902741
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Scholars, as well as government officials, members of the publishing industry, librarians, and other agents of culture: there are a multitude of stakeholders for whom data on reading habits, including the average time people spend on this activity nowadays, is of interest. But, in Europe, there is less data available for comparison than would be desirable for these stakeholders. Surveys on this issue exist in many, but not all, countries in question. When they do exist, the number of conceptions of what kind of reading they wish to investigate is almost the same as the number of surveys themselves. In some, the difference between printed and digital texts is considered neglectable, so long as the things being read
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/602/image/coversmall"Read Much?"—"Depends. Who Wants to Know?": A Closer Look at Time as One Possible Parameter to Quantify European Reading Habits2023-07-24text/htmlen-US"Read Much?"—"Depends. Who Wants to Know?": A Closer Look at Time as One Possible Parameter to Quantify European Reading Habits2023-07-242023TWOProject MUSE®228512026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002023-07-24Time between Books: Selection, Access, Fallowness, and #BookTok
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902742
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How does reading occupy our time? The moments spent with book in hand obviously constitute explicit reading time. But how reading (or waiting to read) seeps into the rest of our lives raises much more complicated questions. Deidre Shauna Lynch and Evelyne Ender summarize some of this complexity:
[R]eaders do much more (and less) than actualize writers' intended meanings, or enable written texts to come to life in the theaters of their minds, or succumb to being informed by their reading matter. … And the term reception … misleads inasmuch as it implies a punctual, self-contained act and not the complex, layered, and extended temporalities this domain of practice involves.1
This article raises questions about one
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/602/image/coversmallTime between Books: Selection, Access, Fallowness, and #BookTok2023-07-24text/htmlen-USTime between Books: Selection, Access, Fallowness, and #BookTok2023-07-242023TWOProject MUSE®347622026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002023-07-24The Codex is Always on Crip Time: ADHD(ness) and Reading
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902743
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Discussing Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) outside of neurodivergent communities can be daunting. The name itself is misleading, which is why going forward I will be treating the acronym as a noun. Apart from the fact that ADHD is not a "disorder" there is a lot to be said for the argument that "it" is named after external presentations and not the experiences of ADHDers themselves.1 More importantly, the rhetorical insult of the misnomer can be taken as a pars pro toto for decades of research in favor of medical, individualistic models of disability,2 resulting in stigmatization and a heavily distorted public image of ADHD, as well as a complete disregard for the shared cultural experiences of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/602/image/coversmallThe Codex is Always on Crip Time: ADHD(ness) and Reading2023-07-24text/htmlen-USThe Codex is Always on Crip Time: ADHD(ness) and Reading2023-07-242023TWOProject MUSE®500072026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002023-07-24"The childhood I was meant to be in": The Queer Time of Reading
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/902744
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"Long after childhood, I clung to childish things," confesses Andrew Solomon, in his meticulously researched, doorstop study of identity acquisition and parent-child relationships, Far from the Tree; "what growing up portended for me was too humiliating." His shame, in childhood and adolescence, was his homosexuality, and one of the "childish things" in which he took refuge was a book: A. A. Milne's The House at Pooh Corner, first published in 1928. "I had some far-fetched idea," he admits, "that I would be Christopher Robin forever in the Hundred Acre Wood." Solomon goes on to cite the closing lines in full: "Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on top of the Forest, a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/602/image/coversmall"The childhood I was meant to be in": The Queer Time of Reading2023-07-24text/htmlen-US"The childhood I was meant to be in": The Queer Time of Reading2023-07-242023TWOProject MUSE®769242026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002023-07-24