excellent
― the late great, Friday, 3 February 2017 05:24 (seven years ago) link
reading out loud is my favorite
It seems to me that the right to read anything is the foundational right, for if all potential readers are freely granted this right, then surely all who will ever find pleasure and instruction in reading will be able to discover it.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 3 February 2017 05:25 (seven years ago) link
also a huge fan of "read anywhere", especially books divided into short pieces that you can browse out of order
― the late great, Friday, 3 February 2017 05:26 (seven years ago) link
tell me more about bovary-ism
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 February 2017 07:35 (seven years ago) link
...c'est moi?
― no lime tangier, Friday, 3 February 2017 07:49 (seven years ago) link
This reminds me of the "readers' liberation movement" (or "semiotic democracy") proposed by the television theorist John Fiske in the 1990s, which "asserts the reader's right to make, out of the program, the text that connects the discourses of the program with the discourses through which he/she lives his/her social experience, and thus for program, society and reading subject to come together in an active, creative living of culture in the moment of reading."
― Bongo Herbert (Ward Fowler), Friday, 3 February 2017 09:06 (seven years ago) link
Pierre Bayard's amusing 'How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read' also seems relevant;
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jan/06/fiction.society
― Bongo Herbert (Ward Fowler), Friday, 3 February 2017 09:08 (seven years ago) link
― mookieproof, Friday, February 3, 2017 1:35 AM (ten hours ago)
― no lime tangier, Friday, February 3, 2017 1:49 AM (nine hours ago)
i don't actually know what pennac sez about it, i haven't seen the book, but i assume it is as nlt indicates, a reader-response disease a la emma b
: a conception of oneself as other than one is to the extent that one's general behavior is conditioned or dominated by the conception; especially : domination by such an idealized, glamorized, glorified, or otherwise unreal conception of oneself that it results in dramatic personal conflict (as in tragedy), in markedly unusual behavior (as in paranoia), or in great achievement
Today, Bovarism is understood to mean fleeing tedium and melancholy into an impossible world of dreams, but there is still no consensus over whether Emma deserves sympathy for trying to break free from the 19th-century bourgeois constraints or merits condemnation for going to any length to fulfill her desires. Alad Riding, "It's 'Bovary.' It's French. Don't Expect Harmony." New York Times, April 9, 1991 I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare. T.S. Eliot, "Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca," Selected Essays, 1932
I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare. T.S. Eliot, "Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca," Selected Essays, 1932
― j., Friday, 3 February 2017 17:45 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 13 February 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
In my opinion, half of those aren't rights at all.
― alimosina, Monday, 13 February 2017 20:41 (seven years ago) link
The rights framework is a gimmick to tie together a bunch of related thoughts.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, 13 February 2017 20:49 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
the right to break the DRM on your Amazon purchases
the right to download an ebook on b00kzz when you already own a hardback copy but it's too heavy/awkward to lug around outside your bedroom
the right to download fanmade R. A. Lafferty compilations on b00kzz because have you seen how much his books are going for on Amazon it's ridiculous
the right to add a short story collection to your 'read in 2017' list even though you didn't bother to reread the stories you had previously read in other collections
― schrute dwyte (unregistered), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 00:49 (seven years ago) link
"grappiller"
― j., Sunday, 7 July 2019 00:19 (four years ago) link