Reading literature/culture: a translation of "Reading as a Cultural Practice".

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In September 1983, Pierre Bourdieu and Roger Chartier concluded an interdisciplinary conference in the Provencal town of Saint-Maximin with a discussion on the practice of reading. The conversation between the two men was published with essays from the conference under the title Pratiques de la lecture (Practices of Reading) in 1985, edited by Chartier. In their stimulating dialogue published as "La Lecture: Une Pratique culturelle" ("Reading as a Cultural Practice"), Bourdieu and Chartier synthesize and comment on many of the themes presented by other scholars at the ...

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