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Unexpected usage no. 2: The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone

Pierre-Carl Langlais has a PhD in information and communication science and is working with OpenEdition Lab on the unexpected reader detector. Studying OpenEdition’s statistics, he discovered several enlightening cases of how content on the platform has been read and reappropriated, which we are sharing here.
If you would like to tell us about other cases, please contact us at lab@openedition.org

Another thing we have discovered is that unexpected reading can also stem from less “exceptional” current affairs. The OpenEdition logs include traces of temporary interest aroused by a book or film. In June, the American television channel TCM broadcast an American classic from the 1950s, The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone. Not everyone necessarily saw the end of the film (or understood it perfectly): an article on Revues.org originally published in 1997 in the Journal of the Short Story in English (jsse.revues.org/138) attracted several hundred American visitors with the keywords “spring of Mrs Stone ending”. Open access searches here assume a new function of enriching and “documenting” the aesthetic experience. Studies, some of them old, can be remobilized to shed light on the context of a work or its meaning.

Readers of the article of the Journal of the Short Story in English from the 15th till the 20th of june come exclusively from the US and Canada

 


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Élodie Faath (9 août 2017). Unexpected usage no. 2: The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone. OpenEdition Lab. Consulté le 28 avril 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/qnrh


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