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An Exercise to Begin
• Take 5 minutes to write down (or draw!) what your ideal reading experience looks and feels like. • Where are you?
• What are you reading? How are you reading it?
• What do you smell? Hear? Touch? Feel? Taste?
Fig. 1 (left): “St. Jerome in his Study,” 1492
Fig. 2 (right): “Brother Gregorio of Vicenza,” 1547
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Picture 1 is Brother Gregoria. Portrait painted in 1547.
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Picture 2 is St. Jerome in his Study, 1492.
Fig. 3 (at right): “Girl Reading,” Auguste Renoir, 1891
Fig. 4 (at left): “A Young Girl Reading,” Alfred Stevens, 1856
Fig. 5 (at left): “Girl Reading,” Jennifer Ryan, 2014
Fig. 6 (at right): “Self Portrait,” Paperback Castles, 2015
Imagined Communities
• Anderson (1987): A nation is an “imagined political community… It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion” (p. 6).
• “… it is imagined as a community, because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each [nation], the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship” (p. 7).
Social Valences of Reading
• Consuming
• Sharing
• Producing
• Performing
Oprah first began the book club in 1996.
She “re-booted” it in 2012 after a one-year hiatus.
Implications
Fans Corporations
