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Literary studies and the pursuits of reading /
Thirty years ago, when theory emerged as integral to literary studies, investigations into the nature of reading dominated academic criticism. Since then, as cultural studies and historical approaches have gained ascendancy, critical focus on reading has waned. This collection of new essays by leadi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, New York :
Camden House, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Inc.,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Eric Downing, Jonathan M. Hess, and Richard V. Benson
- Part I. Medieval and Early Modern Practices of Reading. 1. Apertio Libri: codex and conversion / Christopher Wild
- 2. The question of reading and the Medieval book: reception and manuscript variation of Thomasin's Welscher gast / Kathryn Starkey
- 3. Reading in Nuremberg's fifteenth-century Carnival plays / Ann Marie Rasmussen
- 4. Shakespeare, Biblical interpretation, and the elusiveness of meaning / Darryl J. Gless
- Part II. Reading, Secularization, and Transcendence in the Long Nineteenth Century. 5. Reading and the writing of German-Jewish history / Jonathan M. Hess
- 6. Similia Similibus Curentur: homeopathy and Its magic wand of analogy / Alice Kuzniar
- 7. Reading and rhetorical generation: the example of Blake's Thel / Janice Hewlett Koelb
- 8. Sender Glatteis Reads Lessing and Comes to a Sad End: some thoughts on Karl Emil Franzos's Der Pojaz and the problem of Jewish reading / Jeffrey L. Sammons
- Part III. Theories and Practices of Reading in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. 9. Magic reading / Eric Downing
- 10. "Anything One Wants": Kafka and women, again / Ruth V. Gross
- 11. Reading on the edge of oblivion: Virgil and Virgule in Coetzee's Age of Iron / Gary Shapiro
- Part IV. Postscript: The Ends of Reading. 12. Reading experience in Faust / Stanley Corngold.