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How we read today

Welcome from Philipp Schweighauser

Welcome from Philipp Schweighauser

Why are you here and what do you read?

Why are you here and what do you read?

How do we read today?

How do we read today?

So how do you read?

So how do you read?

How people read today

How people read today

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What are hyper reading and social reading?

What are hyper reading and social reading?

Is hyper reading good for you?

Is hyper reading good for you?

How does social reading work?

How does social reading work?

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Review your understanding

What professional reading strategies are there?

What professional reading strategies are there?

So what is your preference?

So what is your preference?

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Review your understanding

What is close reading?

What is close reading?

How does close reading work?

How does close reading work?

What are the strengths and weaknesses of close reading?

What are the strengths and weaknesses of close reading?

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Review your understanding

How can we close-read a poem? Part I

How can we close-read a poem? Part I

Can you close-read a poem? Part I

Can you close-read a poem? Part I

How can we define close reading?

How can we define close reading?

How can we close-read a poem? Part II

How can we close-read a poem? Part II

Can you close-read a poem? Part II

Can you close-read a poem? Part II

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Review your understanding

Hyper reading & social reading

What is hyper reading? Part I

What is hyper reading? Part I

What are the strategies of hyper reading? Part I

What are the strategies of hyper reading? Part I

So how do you hyper read? Part I

So how do you hyper read? Part I

What is hyper reading? Part II

What is hyper reading? Part II

What are the strategies of hyper reading? Part II

What are the strategies of hyper reading? Part II

So how do you hyper read? Part II

So how do you hyper read? Part II

What are the benefits and risks of hyper reading?

What are the benefits and risks of hyper reading?

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Review your understanding

What is social reading?

What is social reading?

What types of social reading are there?

What types of social reading are there?

Your experience with social reading

Your experience with social reading

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New Historicism

What are the historical contexts of 'In a Station of the Metro'?

What are the historical contexts of 'In a Station of the Metro'?

What is modernity and how does it relate to our poem?

What is modernity and how does it relate to our poem?

Pound’s Basel connection

Pound’s Basel connection

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What are the literary-historical contexts of 'In a Station of the Metro'?

What are the literary-historical contexts of 'In a Station of the Metro'?

What do scholars write about 'In a Station of the Metro'?

What do scholars write about 'In a Station of the Metro'?

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What is new about New Historicism?

What is new about New Historicism?

How does New Historicism allow us to read 'In a Station of the Metro'?

How does New Historicism allow us to read 'In a Station of the Metro'?

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Distant reading

What is distant reading?

What is distant reading?

What do distant readers do differently?

What do distant readers do differently?

What does distant reading look like?

What does distant reading look like?

How can you do distant reading?

How can you do distant reading?

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What is Euterpe? Part I

What is Euterpe? Part I

What is Euterpe? Part II

What is Euterpe? Part II

What do we learn from distant reading?

Video , 12 min.

What do we learn from distant reading?

Video , 12 min.

What are the uses and limitations of distant reading?

What are the uses and limitations of distant reading?

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Surface reading & the materiality of communication

Is the medium the message?

Is the medium the message?

What is the message of your cell phone?

What is the message of your cell phone?

What is the message of ebooks?

What is the message of ebooks?

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Why does the materiality of books matter?

Why does the materiality of books matter?

What is the matter with matter?

What is the matter with matter?

What about your own books?

What about your own books?

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How do print books change in face of the digital challenge?

How do print books change in face of the digital challenge?

What is remediation?

What is remediation?

So what is your favorite reading strategy in the digital age?

So what is your favorite reading strategy in the digital age?

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HYPER READING & SOCIAL READING

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Contact

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Prof. Dr. Philipp Schweighauser
Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften
Nadelberg 4
4051 Basel

Phone: +41 (0)61 207 27 84
Email: ph.schweighauser@unibas.ch

Philipp Schweighauser is Associate Professor and Head of American and General Literatures at the University of Basel. He is the author of The Noises of American Literature, 1890 - 1985: Toward a History of Literary Acoustics (University Press of Florida, 2006) and Beautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art (University of Virginia Press, 2016).
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