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  • Bookishness and Australian Literature

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    Buckridge, Pat
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    Buckridge, Pat J.
    Year published
    2007
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    Abstract
    The terms and tropes associated with books provide essential data for a properly grounded historical phenomenology of reading; at the same time they reflect laterally on some of the broader patterns within the cultures in which they occur. The traditional analogies of"books as friends" and "books as furniture," for example, are nicely succinct epitomes of two very different but equally persistent forms of investment in books-effective and financial investment-which have been deeply characteristic of Anglo-American cultures since the beginning of the nineteenth century.1 Their embedded familiarity and complexity are, if ...
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    The terms and tropes associated with books provide essential data for a properly grounded historical phenomenology of reading; at the same time they reflect laterally on some of the broader patterns within the cultures in which they occur. The traditional analogies of"books as friends" and "books as furniture," for example, are nicely succinct epitomes of two very different but equally persistent forms of investment in books-effective and financial investment-which have been deeply characteristic of Anglo-American cultures since the beginning of the nineteenth century.1 Their embedded familiarity and complexity are, if anything, the more clearly demonstrated by their ironic reversibility: books as the friends you never have to invite over, and books as the intellectual furniture of a well-stocked mind.2 Even ostensibly simple and straightforward terms from this same paradigm-a term like "bookish," for example-can turn out, upon closer examination, to be less straightforward and perspicuous than they look.
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    Journal Title
    Script & Print
    Volume
    30
    Issue
    4
    Publisher URI
    https://www.bsanz.org/publications/script-and-print/
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) 2007. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. For information about this journal please refer to the journal's website or contact the author.
    Subject
    Language, Communication and Culture
    History and Archaeology
    Philosophy and Religious Studies
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/18148
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