A Welcome Abuse : Notes on Finding Community Through the Battered Book
(2006) A Welcome Abuse : Notes on Finding Community Through the Battered Book. From Writer to Reader : An eJournal On Books and Reading.
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Abstract
The book-body and the flesh-body live in tangent. Or such should be the case, if we allow the book to live with us and not under glass, in plastic sleeves, in a safe, under lock and key in a climate-controlled, neutrally lit niche. If we welcome damaged goods into our home and release them into the homes of others. We can learn a lot about ourselves and our fellow readers by considering a story’s casings: patience, for one thing. That community extends beyond the immediate and into the virtual, for another. That we all want to be roughed up. For what is an untouched book but an unlived life?
| Keywords: | Alcuin Society, Amphora, ISSN 1911-7302 |
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| Subjects: | C. Users, literacy and reading. > CZ. None of these, but in this section. |
| ID Code: | 7555 |
| Deposited By: | Saunders, Jeremiah |
| Deposited On: | 19 November 2006 |
| Alternative Locations: | http://www.alcuinsociety.com/ejournal/index.html |
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