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" It is performed in silent privacy, in the lair of the skull. Yet each communicant is well aware that the ceremony he performs is being replicated simultaneously by thousands (or millions) of others of whose existence he is confident, yet of whose identity... "
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism - Page 35
by Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - 1991 - 224 pages
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Asian America.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace

Rachel C. Lee, Sau-ling Cynthia Wong - Computers - 2003 - 358 pages
...the Internet to reach their symbolic network of compatriots. Like Anderson's newspaper reader, who is "well aware that the ceremony he performs is being...of whose identity he has not the slightest notion," 37 the Viet Quoc party explicitly recognizes its widespread but anonymous audience: "The primary objective...
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Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson

Pheng Cheah, Jonathan D. Culler - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 266 pages
...the daily ceremony of the simultaneous consumption of the newspaper: "each communicant is well-aware that the ceremony he performs is being replicated...of whose identity he has not the slightest notion" (35). Moreover, the newspaper itself is constructed on the principle of simultaneity: the only link...
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Recovering the New: Transatlantic Roots of Modernism

Edward S. Cutler - History - 2003 - 236 pages
...in which "each communicant is well aware that the ceremony he performs Tof reading the daily newsj is being replicated simultaneously by thousands (or...of whose identity he has not the slightest notion" (35). While I agree with Anderson that the mass press facilitates the formation of an imagined community,...
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Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-century America

Patricia Okker - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 230 pages
...community. Though the identities of the members remain unknown, each reader is aware that the same "ceremony he performs is being replicated simultaneously...millions) of others of whose existence he is confident." 14 The coexistence of private and communal impulses associated with the magazine novel highlights one...
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Asian America.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace

Rachel C. Lee, Sau-ling Cynthia Wong - Computers - 2003 - 358 pages
...the Internet to reach their symbolic network of compatriots. Like Anderson's newspaper reader, who is "well aware that the ceremony he performs is being replicated simultaneously by thousands 1or millions) of others of whose existence he is confident, yet of whose identity he has not the slightest...
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Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism: Poetry and the Mediation of History

Kevis Goodman - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 268 pages
...for morning prayers - is paradoxical. It is performed in silent privacy, in the lair of the skull. Yet each communicant is well aware that the ceremony...confident, yet of whose identity he has not the slightest notion.'3 The "lair of the skull" can be a crowded place. Like other scholars interested in the circulation...
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Roman Fever: Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-century American ...

Annamaria Formichella Elsden - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 179 pages
...community: "Each communicant is well aware that the ceremony he performs [that of reading the daily paper] is being replicated simultaneously by thousands (or...this ceremony is incessantly repeated at daily or half -daily intervals throughout the calendar. What more vivid figure for the secular, historically...
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Media/theory: Thinking about Media and Communications

Shaun Moores - Business & Economics - 2005 - 228 pages
...silent privacy, in the lair of the skull. Yet each communicant is well aware that the ceremony he [sic] performs is being replicated simultaneously by thousands (or millions) of others of whose existence he [sic] is confident ... this ceremony is incessantly repeated at daily or half-daily intervals throughout...
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Old Books and New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture

Leslie Howsam - History - 2006 - 129 pages
...communion, or moment of common prayer: 'It is performed in silent privacy, in the lair of the skull. Yet each communicant is well aware that the ceremony...of whose identity he has not the slightest notion.' Thus for Anderson, the book trade is a 'silent bazaar' that links producers with consumers of writings...
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The Literary in Theory

Jonathan D. Culler - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 300 pages
...clocked, imagined community" is the daily ceremony of the simultaneous consumption of the newspaper: "each communicant is well aware that the ceremony...of whose identity he has not the slightest notion" (1C, 35). Moreover the newspaper itself is constructed on the principle of simultaneity: the only link...
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