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Abstract
The opening article,“Introducing Book Networks and Cultural Capital: Space, Society & the Nation,” has two purposes. The first is to explicate the theme of this third issue of Mémoires du Livre/Studies in Print Culture, co-edited by Leslie Howsam and Jane McLeod. That theme emerges from a conference where several of the papers originated, a meeting of the Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture/Association canadienne pour l’étude de l’histoire du livre, held in 2009 in Ottawa at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The second purpose is to contextualize and provide brief introductions to the eight articles, linking them in a tripartite analysis of networks – face-to-face societies, imagined communities where reading creates or reinforces identities, and the anachronistic networks that emerge when books are re-read and re-interpreted across a span of decades, or even centuries.
Résumé
Le premier article, « Introducing Book Networks and Cultural Capital: Space, Society & the Nation » vise en premier lieu à expliquer le thème de ce troisième numéro de Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture, codirigé par Leslie Howsam et Jane McLeod. Ce thème s’est dégagé d’un colloque de l’Association canadienne pour l’étude du livre / Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture qui a eu lieu en 2009, à Ottawa, dans le cadre du Congrès des sciences humaines. En second lieu, on y trouve une mise en contexte des huit articles que compte le numéro et un bref aperçu de ceux-ci qui fait ressortir une analyse tripartite des réseaux : ceux des sociétés dont les membres sont en interaction directe, ceux des « communautés imaginées » dans lesquelles la lecture a une dimension identitaire et, enfin, ceux, anachroniques, qui surgissent lorsque les livres sont relus et réinterprétés sur une période de plusieurs décennies, voire de quelques siècles.
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