Crisis time and rereading

Ben Davies; Christina Lupton; Johanne Gormsen Schmidt

doi:10.4324/9781003348122-12

Crisis time and rereading

Ben Davies, Christina Lupton, Johanne Gormsen Schmidt

University of Copenhagen

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures
Editors	Sibylle Baumbach, Birgit Neumann
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	12
Pages	194-209
Number of pages	16
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781003348122
ISBN (Print)	1032390301, 9781032390307
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003348122-12 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003348122
Publication status	Published - 8 Aug 2023

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C19NR: The Experience of Novel Reading During COVID-19 Lockdowns 2020
Davies, B. & Lupton, C.
1/08/20 → 30/11/21
Project: Research

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