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Memories of Fiction: An Oral History of Readers' Life Stories

小说的回忆：读者生活故事的口述史

基本信息

批准号：
AH/L004585/1
负责人：
Shelley Trower
金额：
$ 38.08万
依托单位：
University of Roehampton
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2014 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FL004585%2F1
关键词：
Memories Fiction Oral History Readers

项目摘要

This project aims to find out how reading shapes our lives. What do we remember about the books we have read (as a child, on the tube, on holiday), and why? Reading is often experienced as a private activity, which takes place in silence, on one's own. Yet reading groups have grown immensely in popularity over the past two decades, bringing reading experiences into the public domain. In what ways do we share our memories of reading?This project is interested in both individual and collective memories of reading fiction. It will firstly set up an oral history archive of interviews with members of local reading groups, to explore memories as described in individual life stories. In doing so, the project will provide a new kind of resource - differing from the numerous interviews carried out with authors, from oral history interviews (for the 'Authors' Lives' archive at the British Library) to radio and other interviews by journalists, literary critics, fans and other readers. By turning to readers themselves, the project will make available new material enabling insights into memories of fiction and life stories. How are memories of books associated with particular experiences and emotions? How do readers make use of fiction in their life stories?One thing that is interesting about reading groups is that they turn written text into group talk, turning back the clock from literacy to orality, from the act of the individual reading to talking, from the solitary experience to the social. Scholars of book history often note how reading became an increasingly private activity over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, due in part to the rise in literacy, but book groups interestingly highlight the social potential of reading. Thus the project is concerned not only with individual memories but also with how memories of fiction are exchanged with others. After working with individual interviewees, the project researchers will thus work in the reading groups. Having identified clusters of books recalled across a number of interviews, these books, and memories of them, will then be discussed in groups. We are interested in how these shared memories compare to individual recollections. In what ways can group talk change how we remember fiction?The project will challenge assumptions that reading is merely a private, personal activity. It will consider how reading and storying the self may be related, establishing how individual memories can be shared and related to a wider social and historical context. The project's findings will be of interest not only to individual academics but to reading groups themselves. We will disseminate the research through academic publications and also through public talks, a learning resource and website. As well as providing access to the interviews, the website will provide information and other material including the learning resource, which will outline our methodology for other reading groups to take up and develop, and a forum through which these groups can respond and feed back into the project. The project will thereby provide a hub of activity to foster wider discussions and ongoing reflection about how we remember fiction.

这个项目旨在找出阅读如何塑造我们的生活。关于我们读过的书（孩提时代，在地铁上，在假期里），我们记得什么？为什么？阅读通常被视为一种私人活动，它是在沉默中独自进行的。然而，在过去的二十年里，阅读小组越来越受欢迎，将阅读体验带入了公共领域。我们以什么方式分享我们的阅读记忆？这个项目对个人和集体阅读小说的记忆都很感兴趣。首先，它将建立一个与当地阅读小组成员访谈的口述历史档案，以探索个人生活故事中描述的记忆。在此过程中，该项目将提供一种新的资源——不同于对作者进行的众多采访，从口述历史采访（为大英图书馆的“作者生活”档案）到记者、文学评论家、粉丝和其他读者的广播和其他采访。通过转向读者自己，该项目将提供新的材料，使人们能够深入了解小说和生活故事的记忆。对书籍的记忆是如何与特定的经历和情感联系起来的？读者如何在他们的生活故事中使用小说？关于阅读小组有趣的一件事是他们把书面文本变成集体谈话，把时间从读写转到口头，从个人阅读的行为转到谈话，从孤独的经历转到社会。研究书籍历史的学者经常注意到，在18世纪和19世纪的过程中，阅读如何逐渐成为一种私人活动，部分原因是识字率的提高，但有趣的是，读书小组强调了阅读的社会潜力。因此，该项目不仅关注个人记忆，还关注小说的记忆如何与他人交换。在与个别受访者合作后，项目研究人员将在阅读小组中工作。在确定了通过多次采访回忆起的书籍集群之后，这些书籍以及对它们的记忆将被分组讨论。我们感兴趣的是这些共同记忆与个人记忆的对比。小组讨论如何改变我们对小说的记忆？该项目将挑战阅读仅仅是一种私人活动的假设。它将考虑如何阅读和讲述自我可能是相关的，建立如何个人记忆可以共享，并与更广泛的社会和历史背景。该项目的研究结果不仅会引起个别学者的兴趣，也会引起阅读团体本身的兴趣。我们会透过学术刊物、公开讲座、学习资源和网站来传播研究成果。除了提供访问访问，网站还将提供信息和其他材料，包括学习资源，它将概述我们的方法，供其他阅读小组采用和发展，以及一个论坛，通过这个论坛，这些小组可以对项目做出回应和反馈。因此，该项目将提供一个活动中心，促进关于我们如何记住小说的更广泛的讨论和持续的反思。