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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Lauer
Event type:
Lecture
Displayed in timetable as:
History of reading
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
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Requirements / organisational issues:
The task of the lecture is to convey historical as well as systematic insights into the social, cultural and historical diversity of reading. The lecture discusses fundamental questions of the history of education and the psychology of reading, the social functions of reading in history and the present. The students learn to understand these historical as well as systematic contexts and gain a knowledge that is also useful professionally on how they can promote societies through reading.
Contents:
Reading is nothing less than perhaps the greatest invention of humankind. Yet many worry that the reading exploration of the world is coming to an end in the age of digitalisation. The lecture, in contrast, shows that there has never been more reading than today. It goes through the history of small and large readers, looks over the shoulders of people reading in different parts of the world and tries to understand the neuronal and cognitive processes that make books accessible to us in the first place. The lecture thus provides an overview of the phenomenon of reading, without which our world would be a different one, especially in the digital age.
Recommended reading list:
Burke, P. / Briggs, A., A social history of the media. From Gutenberg to the Internet. Cambridge: University Press 2002.
Chartier, R., L'Ordre des livres: Lecteurs, auteurs, bibliothèques en Europe entre XIVe et XVIIIe siècle. Aix-en-Provence: Alinéa 1992.
Dehaene, S., Lesen. Die größte Erfindung der Menschheit und was dabei in unseren Köpfen passiert. München: btb 2007.
Franzmann, B. u.a. (Hg.), Handbuch Lesen. Berlin: de Gruyter 1999.
Graf, W., Leseporträts. Die biografische Wirkung der Literatur. Mit einer Einführung in die qualitative biografische Leseforschung. Münster: Lit Verlag 2018.
Griem Julika, Szenen des Lesens. Schauplätze einer gesellschaftlichen Selbstverständigung. Bielefeld: transcript 2021.
Hammerstein, N. et al. (Hg.), Handbuch der deutschen Bildungsgeschichte. 6 Bde., München: Beck 1987-2005.
Israel, S. / Duffy, G. (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension. Sec. ed., New York: Guilford 2016.
Marshall, B. / Manuel, J. / Pasternak, D. (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Reading Perspectives and Practices. London: Bloomsbury 2021.
Manguel, A. / Hirte, C., Geschichte des Lesens. 2. Aufl. Frankfurt: Fischer 2008.
Pearson, D. et al. (Eds.), Handbook of Reading Research. Vol. I – V, New York: Routledge 2002-2020.
Pollatsek, A. / Treimann, R. (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Reading. Oxford: University Press 2014.
Rautenberg, U. / Schneider, U. (Hg.), Lesen. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Berlin: de Gruyter 2006.
Cornelia Rosebrock (Hg.): Lesen im Medienzeitalter. Biographische und historische Aspekte literarischer Sozialisation. Weinheim: Juventa 1995.
Schön, E., Der Verlust der Sinnlichkeit oder Die Verwandlungen des Lesers. Mentalitätswandel um 1800. Stuttgart: Klett 1987
Snowling, M. / Hulme, C. (Eds.), The Science of Reading. A Handbook. Hoboken: Wiley 2005.
Towheed, S. / Owens, W., History of Reading. 3 Vols. Basingstroke: Palgrave 2011.
Willingham, D. (2017). The reading mind. A cognitive approach to understanding how the mind reads. Hoboken: Jossey-Bass 2017.
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