11 December 2024 - 11 December 2024
12:30PM - 1:30PM
IMH Atrium, 1st floor, Confluence Building, DH1 3LE
Free
The Affective Experience Lab’s ‘Making Sense’ workshops bring together colleagues from across disciplines to reflect on keywords that relate to our shared interest in affect, emotion and embodiment.
The second Making Sense Workshop will examine 'Reading'. We will revisit one of the foundational studies of the cultural sociology of reading, Janice Radway’s ethnography Reading the Romance (1984). Revisiting this seminal work allows us to consider how our disciplinary assumptions about reading, feeling and community have changed in the forty years since the text’s publication.
We will focus our discussion on Chapter 2 (The Readers and Their Romance) and Chapter 3 (The Act of Reading the Romance: Escape and Instruction). The book is available online via Durham University Library, or by contacting Fraser Riddell (f.i.riddell@durham.ac.uk).
You may also like to read this Interview with Janice Radway by Loren Glass (from the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 2009).
A light lunch will be provided.
The workshop is hosted by the Affective Experience Lab, led by Corinne Saunders and Fraser Riddell.
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