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Ethics through Literature : Ascetic and Aesthetic Reading in Western Culture /

"Why do we read? Based on a series of lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel in 2005, Brian Stock presents a model for relating ascetic and aesthetic principles in Western reading practices. Tracing the ascetic component of reading from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance and...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Stock, Brian
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Hanover : University Press of New England, 2007.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The reader's dilemma
  • The ascetic reader
  • The aesthetic reader.