The (not so simple) Act of Collaborative Reading: about reading 'Finnegans Wake'

Carey, G

The (not so simple) Act of Collaborative Reading: about reading 'Finnegans Wake'

Carey, G

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Publisher:: Random House
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: The Simple Act of Reading, 2015
Issue Date:: 2015

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dc.contributor.author	Carey, G https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3127-3891	en_US
dc.date.issued	2015	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	The Simple Act of Reading, 2015	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9780857986245	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	EVEN THIRTY YEARS AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF Puberty Blues, it’s a question that I am still regularly asked. Mostly out of curiosity but occasionally out of suspicion. ‘How did you write a book together?’ I talk about composing each sentence collaboratively, sharing ideas about what would come next and how it would be phrased, as well as editing as we wrote. It’s a diffi cult concept for people to grasp because writing is usually a solitary act, possibly even an intimate one – just like reading. Intimate because the reader, often in bed at night, engages with the author precisely in order to be aroused – by feelings of excitement, stimulation, sadness, terror and wonder. So what happens when this intimate act, involving one person, becomes a group act, involving several? Is it like progressing from quiet coupling to group sex?	en_US
dc.publisher	Random House	en_US
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dc.title	The (not so simple) Act of Collaborative Reading: about reading 'Finnegans Wake'	en_US
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Abstract:

EVEN THIRTY YEARS AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF Puberty Blues, it’s a question that I am still regularly asked. Mostly out of curiosity but occasionally out of suspicion. ‘How did you write a book together?’ I talk about composing each sentence collaboratively, sharing ideas about what would come next and how it would be phrased, as well as editing as we wrote. It’s a diffi cult concept for people to grasp because writing is usually a solitary act, possibly even an intimate one – just like reading. Intimate because the reader, often in bed at night, engages with the author precisely in order to be aroused – by feelings of excitement, stimulation, sadness, terror and wonder. So what happens when this intimate act, involving one person, becomes a group act, involving several? Is it like progressing from quiet coupling to group sex?

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