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TLRH | Hublic Sphere | Childhood Books: The Power(s) of Rereading
Recorded December 3, 2020. In this episode, Siobhán Callaghan(School of English) speaks to Dr Alison Waller about the powerful act of rereading books from childhood. Alison is the author of Rereading Childhood Books: A Poetics (2019), in which she explores what it means to return to texts from our childhood and develops a new model for understanding lifelong reading. For many of us, the events of the past year have challenged how we perceive the passage of time. In our discussion, Siobhán and Alison explore how and why we return to the same texts throughout our lifespans. Alison discusses…
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