Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome
Constructing Elite Reading Communities in the High Empire
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Johnson, WA
2009
© 2009 by Oxford University Press, Inc. All rights reserved. This chapter takes Aulus Gellius's work entitled Attic Nights as an illustrative example to present a methodology for exposing the sociology of certain types of reading events and how a reading community makes use of texts. Attic Nights is composed of 400 short essays on miscellaneous topics and varies in narrative aims and strategies. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the ideological components and ways of using texts for different types of reading events.
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Johnson, W. A. (2009). Constructing Elite Reading Communities in the High Empire. In Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199793983.003.0013
Johnson, W. A. “Constructing Elite Reading Communities in the High Empire.” In Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199793983.003.0013.
Johnson WA. Constructing Elite Reading Communities in the High Empire. In: Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome. 2009.
Johnson, W. A. “Constructing Elite Reading Communities in the High Empire.” Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, 2009. Manual, doi:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199793983.003.0013.
Johnson WA. Constructing Elite Reading Communities in the High Empire. Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome. 2009.