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Australian Readers Remember
Martyn LyonsLucy Taksa
其他書名
An Oral History of Reading 1890-1930
出版Oxford University Press, 1992
主題History / GeneralHistory / Australia & New ZealandLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Reading SkillsLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Books & Reading
ISBN01955330469780195533040
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pyPhAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Australian Readers Remember is a novel cultural history, based on an investigation into the reading habits of sixty elderly Australians, who were asked to recall and to analyse what they were reading in the late nineteenth century and during the first three decades of the twentieth century, It is the first work of Australian literary history to focus on readers' experience and attitudes. Part One discusses the project, the place of oral history, and the problems involved in analysing thefinding. Part Two offers an account of readers' memories of novels, verse, children's books, newspapers etc. Part Three examines the diffusion of literature and how the subjects obtained access to books. Part Four, the most original in the book, analyses the status of reading, attitudes towards books, as well as myths and prejudices surrounding the act of reading.