Editors' Introduction

IF 0.1 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI:10.5325/reception.15.1.0001
James L. Machor, Amy L. Blair, Yung-Hsing Wu
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Rather, they contend that reception is precisely the place where we might most dynamically engage with accounts of the time spent, or the perceived time of, reading—or with the difficulties inherent in reconciling the incommensurability thereof. “What is this ‘reading time’ that cannot be accounted for, is always vanishing when it’s time to be counted, that seems somehow incommensurable with the rhythms of digital life and the metrics of academic productivity?” they ask in their introduction. “What are we talking about when we talk about reading time? What are we looking for when we mourn its loss?” Reception studies approaches offer many possible ways to answer these questions, as the contributors to this volume abundantly demonstrate.This volume also marks an important moment in the history of the journal, as it is the last issue of Reception for which Jim Machor will be serving as co-editor. He will be resigning from that position in September 2023 following fourteen years in the post. Jim joined Phil Goldstein as co-editor in 2010 when the journal was being published solely in an online format. When Amy Blair was appointed to replace Phil as co-editor in 2013, she and Jim secured funding from Marquette University and Kansas State University to begin publishing Reception in its current print format under the auspices of Penn State University Press. In 2011, at the suggestion of several members of the Reception Study Society Executive Committee, Jim instituted the book review component of the journal and served as its book review editor until 2019, when Yung-Hsing Wu took over that position. Jim is especially proud of having been able to work with Amy and Yung-Hsing to make Reception the leading peer-reviewed journal in the field through the publication of original, cutting-edge research and scholarship in reception studies. Jim wants to thank the RSS and its Executive Committee for giving him this opportunity to contribute to the growth and success of Reception for nearly a decade and a half. It has been a tremendously fulfilling and enjoyable experience. That joy extends, as well, to Jim’s good fortune of being able to work with Amy Blair for eleven years as co-editors. Her editorial acumen, impeccable judgment, and consummate professionalism have made the experience especially satisfying and rewarding. The journal and the Executive Committee will shortly be announcing the appointment of a new co-editor to join Amy in continuing the success of Reception as an international journal dedicated to publishing the latest scholarship and criticism in reception studies. Jim’s wisdom, his editorial expertise, his capacious knowledge, and his intellectual generosity will be missed, but those of us who continue to bring Reception to life each year will always work to follow his example, keep his words in mind, and keep his contact information at the ready (or at least until he blocks us).The book reviews in Reception 2023 speak to one another in ways that readers of the journal will recognize and, we hope, will find compelling. Philip Goldstein’s most recent book, The Theory and Practice of Reception Study: Reading Race and Gender in Twain, Faulkner, Ellison, and Morrison (reviewed by Matthew Vechinski), captures what reception thinking has to offer in understandings of race and gender as they occur in the reading of canonical works of U.S. fiction — a tactic Katherine Whitehurst focalizes in Precious: Identity, Adaptation, and the African-American Youth Film, her account of the cinematic afterlife of Sapphire’s Push (reviewed by Ebony Perro). Meanwhile three books—Suzanne Hobson’s Unbelief in Literary Interwar Culture: Doubting Moderns (reviewed by Cecilia Konchar-Farr); Diana Cucuz’s Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR (reviewed by Kristin Matthews); and Denise Gigante’s Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America (reviewed by Sheila Liming)—dip emphatically into the affective. As their titles make clear, these books attest to the range and intensity of emotion the reception of ideas and texts can provoke, from secular doubt in religion to the cultivation of desirable femininity, to the fervor of “book madness.” A broader cast is at work in M. C. Kinniburgh’s Wild Intelligence: Poets’ Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America (reviewed by David Squires), Elliot T. 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The issue concludes with our usual bibliography of other recently published books to supplement these nine reviews.As a final note, we are very pleased to announce that the Reception Study Society will finally be re-convening for its first post-pandemic, in-person conference at New Mexico State University September 28–30, 2023. Information may be found on our website, receptionstudy.org. 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This issue, the fifteenth volume of Reception, is also our fifth special-topics issue. Guest edited by Amy Blair and Ika Willis, this issue approaches the temporalities of reading reception from a wide variety of disciplinary and theoretical—and experiential, and anecdotal—directions. (The impulse to offer a temporal rather than a spatial metaphor here [“durations?”] is strong, but its unavailability is one of the issues that subtends this volume). As Blair and Willis’s introduction points out, reception studies have not always been sensitive to temporalities of reading, but it does not follow that reception cannot trace reading time, as some scholars have suggested. Rather, they contend that reception is precisely the place where we might most dynamically engage with accounts of the time spent, or the perceived time of, reading—or with the difficulties inherent in reconciling the incommensurability thereof. “What is this ‘reading time’ that cannot be accounted for, is always vanishing when it’s time to be counted, that seems somehow incommensurable with the rhythms of digital life and the metrics of academic productivity?” they ask in their introduction. “What are we talking about when we talk about reading time? What are we looking for when we mourn its loss?” Reception studies approaches offer many possible ways to answer these questions, as the contributors to this volume abundantly demonstrate.This volume also marks an important moment in the history of the journal, as it is the last issue of Reception for which Jim Machor will be serving as co-editor. He will be resigning from that position in September 2023 following fourteen years in the post. Jim joined Phil Goldstein as co-editor in 2010 when the journal was being published solely in an online format. When Amy Blair was appointed to replace Phil as co-editor in 2013, she and Jim secured funding from Marquette University and Kansas State University to begin publishing Reception in its current print format under the auspices of Penn State University Press. In 2011, at the suggestion of several members of the Reception Study Society Executive Committee, Jim instituted the book review component of the journal and served as its book review editor until 2019, when Yung-Hsing Wu took over that position. Jim is especially proud of having been able to work with Amy and Yung-Hsing to make Reception the leading peer-reviewed journal in the field through the publication of original, cutting-edge research and scholarship in reception studies. Jim wants to thank the RSS and its Executive Committee for giving him this opportunity to contribute to the growth and success of Reception for nearly a decade and a half. It has been a tremendously fulfilling and enjoyable experience. That joy extends, as well, to Jim’s good fortune of being able to work with Amy Blair for eleven years as co-editors. Her editorial acumen, impeccable judgment, and consummate professionalism have made the experience especially satisfying and rewarding. The journal and the Executive Committee will shortly be announcing the appointment of a new co-editor to join Amy in continuing the success of Reception as an international journal dedicated to publishing the latest scholarship and criticism in reception studies. Jim’s wisdom, his editorial expertise, his capacious knowledge, and his intellectual generosity will be missed, but those of us who continue to bring Reception to life each year will always work to follow his example, keep his words in mind, and keep his contact information at the ready (or at least until he blocks us).The book reviews in Reception 2023 speak to one another in ways that readers of the journal will recognize and, we hope, will find compelling. Philip Goldstein’s most recent book, The Theory and Practice of Reception Study: Reading Race and Gender in Twain, Faulkner, Ellison, and Morrison (reviewed by Matthew Vechinski), captures what reception thinking has to offer in understandings of race and gender as they occur in the reading of canonical works of U.S. fiction — a tactic Katherine Whitehurst focalizes in Precious: Identity, Adaptation, and the African-American Youth Film, her account of the cinematic afterlife of Sapphire’s Push (reviewed by Ebony Perro). Meanwhile three books—Suzanne Hobson’s Unbelief in Literary Interwar Culture: Doubting Moderns (reviewed by Cecilia Konchar-Farr); Diana Cucuz’s Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR (reviewed by Kristin Matthews); and Denise Gigante’s Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America (reviewed by Sheila Liming)—dip emphatically into the affective. As their titles make clear, these books attest to the range and intensity of emotion the reception of ideas and texts can provoke, from secular doubt in religion to the cultivation of desirable femininity, to the fervor of “book madness.” A broader cast is at work in M. C. Kinniburgh’s Wild Intelligence: Poets’ Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America (reviewed by David Squires), Elliot T. Panek’s Understanding Reddit (reviewed by John Laudun), and Reading Novels during the Covid-19 Pandemic, by Ben Davies, Christina Lupton, and Johanne Gormsen Schmidt (reviewed by Corinna Norrick-Rühl). Poets’ libraries, Reddit, and pandemic reading may seem an unlikely clustering, but beyond their topical differences, these studies share an interest in attending to the sites and occasions where people respond to and make meaning. The work of having such a particular range of books reviewed here was considerably lessened by editorial assistant Ember Johnson, whom Yung-Hsing thanks for her energy and good humor in plunging into an entirely unfamiliar process, from reading and proofing reviews to writing reviewers and reading press catalogs. The issue concludes with our usual bibliography of other recently published books to supplement these nine reviews.As a final note, we are very pleased to announce that the Reception Study Society will finally be re-convening for its first post-pandemic, in-person conference at New Mexico State University September 28–30, 2023. Information may be found on our website, receptionstudy.org. We hope to hear from you and to see you there.
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本期是《接待》第十五卷,也是本刊第五期专题。由艾米·布莱尔和伊卡·威利斯客串编辑,本期从广泛的学科、理论、经验和轶事方向探讨阅读接受的暂时性。(在这里提供一个时间隐喻而不是空间隐喻的冲动[持续时间?“]是强大的,但它的不可用性是本卷的问题之一)。正如Blair和Willis在引言中指出的那样,接受研究并不总是对阅读的时间性敏感,但这并不意味着接受不能像一些学者所建议的那样追踪阅读时间。相反,他们认为,接受恰恰是我们最可能动态地参与到阅读所花费的时间或感知到的时间的描述中,或者在调和其不可通约性方面固有的困难中。“这种无法计算的‘阅读时间’,总是在该计算的时候消失,似乎与数字生活的节奏和学术生产力的指标不可比较,这是什么?”他们在介绍中问道。“当我们谈论阅读时间时,我们在谈论什么?”当我们哀悼它的损失时,我们在寻找什么?”接收研究方法提供了许多可能的方法来回答这些问题,作为贡献者,这一卷充分证明。这一卷也标志着一个重要的时刻,在历史上的杂志,因为它是最后一个问题的接待,吉姆·马克尔将担任共同编辑。在担任该职位14年后,他将于2023年9月辞职。2010年,吉姆加入菲尔·戈尔茨坦(Phil Goldstein)担任联合编辑,当时该杂志仅以在线形式出版。2013年,当艾米·布莱尔被任命取代菲尔担任联合编辑时,她和吉姆从马凯特大学和堪萨斯州立大学获得资金,在宾夕法尼亚州立大学出版社的赞助下,开始以目前的印刷形式出版《接待》。2011年,在接待研究会执行委员会几位成员的建议下,吉姆创办了杂志的书评部分,并担任书评编辑,直到2019年,吴永兴接任该职位。吉姆特别自豪的是,他能够与艾米和永兴合作,通过发表接待学研究的原创、前沿研究和奖学金,使接待学成为该领域领先的同行评议期刊。吉姆要感谢RSS及其执行委员会给他这个机会,让他在近15年的时间里为接待处的发展和成功做出贡献。这是一次非常充实和愉快的经历。这种喜悦也延伸到了吉姆的幸运,他能够与艾米·布莱尔作为共同编辑工作了11年。她的编辑敏锐性、无可挑剔的判断力和完美的专业精神使这段经历特别令人满意和有益。该杂志和执行委员会将很快宣布任命一位新的联合编辑,以加入艾米,继续成功的接待作为一个国际期刊,致力于发表最新的学术和批评的接待研究。吉姆的智慧、他的编辑经验、他丰富的知识和他的思想慷慨将会被怀念,但我们这些每年继续为《接待》带来生机的人将永远以他为榜样,牢记他的话,随时准备他的联系方式(或者至少在他屏蔽我们之前)。《接待2023》中的书评以期刊读者能够识别的方式相互交流,我们希望读者会觉得这很有吸引力。菲利普·戈德斯坦(Philip Goldstein)的新书《接受研究的理论与实践:吐温、福克纳、埃里森和莫里森的种族与性别解读》(由马修·维金斯基(Matthew Vechinski)评论)捕捉到了接受思维在理解种族和性别时所提供的东西,因为它们出现在美国小说的经典作品中——凯瑟琳·怀特赫斯特(Katherine Whitehurst)在《宝贵》(Precious)一书中着重提到了这一策略:《身份、改编和非裔美国青年电影》,她对《蓝宝石的推动》的电影后世的描述(由乌木·佩罗评论)。同时还有三本书——苏珊娜·霍布森的《不相信两次世界大战之间的文学文化:怀疑现代人》(塞西莉亚·康查尔-法尔评论);戴安娜·库库兹的《赢得女性的心灵和思想:在美国和苏联销售冷战文化》(克里斯汀·马修斯评论);和丹尼斯·吉甘特的《书的疯狂:美国藏书者的故事》(希拉·黎明评论)——着重探讨了情感。正如它们的标题所表明的那样,这些书证明了接受思想和文本所能激起的情感的范围和强度,从对宗教的世俗怀疑到对理想女性气质的培养,再到对“书的狂热”。更广泛的演员阵容在《m.c.》中发挥作用。 金尼伯格的《狂野的智慧:战后美国诗人的图书馆和知识政治》(大卫·斯奎尔评论),艾略特·t·帕内克的《理解Reddit》(约翰·劳登评论),以及本·戴维斯、克里斯蒂娜·勒普顿和约翰娜·戈姆森·施密特在新冠肺炎大流行期间阅读小说(科琳娜·诺里克-瑞尔评论)。诗人的图书馆、Reddit和流行阅读似乎不太可能是一个集群,但除了它们的主题差异之外,这些研究都有一个共同的兴趣,那就是关注人们回应和创造意义的网站和场合。编辑助理艾伯·约翰逊(Ember Johnson)大大减轻了对这类特殊书籍进行评论的工作量,永兴感谢她的精力和幽默感,从阅读和校对评论,到撰写评论和阅读出版社目录,她投入了一个完全陌生的过程。这期杂志的结尾是我们对其他最近出版的书籍的参考书目,以补充这九篇评论。最后,我们非常高兴地宣布,接待研究学会最终将于2023年9月28日至30日在新墨西哥州立大学重新召开大流行后的第一次面对面会议。信息可以在我们的网站上找到,receitionstudy.org。我们希望收到您的来信并在那里见到您。
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期刊介绍: Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal published once a year. It seeks to promote dialog and discussion among scholars engaged in theoretical and practical analyses in several related fields: reader-response criticism and pedagogy, reception study, history of reading and the book, audience and communication studies, institutional studies and histories, as well as interpretive strategies related to feminism, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and postcolonial studies, focusing mainly but not exclusively on the literature, culture, and media of England and the United States.
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