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3.4 Literaryworksand their selection
Inbookclubs, thebooksareusually selectedby thecoordinatorand thewayof
acquiring themvaries fromoneclub toanother.Mostof the clubs select books
thatareheld in libraries,whereas inothers themembersbuy theirbook, and in
others theyread themon-screen throughe-booksafterdownloading individual
copies.
Allkindsofbooksarereadintheclubs:classical,current,best-sellers,etc.And
although different kinds of genres are read, the narrative genre usually domi-
nates,asthelibrarycollectionsusedforbookclubsusuallyhavethislimitation.It
isgenerallyconsideredthatthemorevarietythereisinthereadingsproposed,the
more quality the book club has, because participants will have more oppor-
tunities tobecomeacquaintedwithinterestingbooks. Inschoolbookclubs,abit
of everything tends to be read, andparticipants emphatically value the oppor-
tunity that the club gives them to readbooks that theywouldnot have readby
themselves.
Indialogic literary gatherings, onlyuniversal classics are read, and these are
selectedby theparticipants after aprocess inwhich they submit reasonedpro-
posals, after which the group reaches a consensus (not by voting), taking on
boardthebestargumentsprovided.Thismayseemalimitation,butit isdonefor
an important reason:why readall kindsofbooks if there is a corpusof literary
worksconsideredtobethebestofall time?10Dialogic literarygatheringsoperate
in such away that they ensure that everyone can read these books (which are
oftenjudgedasbeing ’hard’),astheyarebrokendownintosmallpartswhichare
then discussed at the meetings. In literary gatherings, be they for adults or
children,peoplebuy theirownbookorborrow it froma library.
Inschoolgatherings, children’sclassics (authors suchasAndersenorVerne)
oradaptedadultuniversalclassics(TheOdyssey,DonQuixote,RomeoandJuliet,
etc.)areoftenchosenbecause theyareanaptvehicle for in-depthdebates,given
the large number of values, behaviours, attitudes, and ways of thinking and
acting thatoccur in this typeofbooks.
3.5 Takingstock
Theresultshighlightakeyaspect:behindeachof these twopractices there isan
innovationparadigm in readingwhich cannot be ignored by the organisations
that intend topromote them.Bothcurrentlypresentopportunities andwaysof
10 Calvin1993.
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Über Bücher reden
Literaturrezeption in Lesegemeinschaften
- Title
- Über Bücher reden
- Subtitle
- Literaturrezeption in Lesegemeinschaften
- Author
- Doris Moser
- Editor
- Claudia Dürr
- Publisher
- V&R unipress
- Date
- 2021
- Language
- German
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-7370-1323-9
- Size
- 15.5 x 23.2 cm
- Pages
- 262
- Category
- Lehrbücher