UID:
edocfu_9960119915902883
Format:
1 online resource (vi, 298 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-283-62019-7
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9786613932648
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1-58046-778-4
Series Statement:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Content:
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 leading scholars of German and comparative literature, inspired by the work of the long-time and influential scholar of reading Clayton Koelb, puts the study of reading back at center stage, considering current theory on reading, emotion, and affect alongside historical investigations into cultural practices of reading as they have changed over time. Topics addressed include ancient practices of magic reading; Christian conversionary reading; the emergence of silent reading in the Middle Ages; Renaissance ekphrastic reading; homeopathy, reading and Romanticism; and German-Jewish reading cultures in the nineteenth century. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of literary criticism, German Studies, comparative literature, and European history. Contributors: Richard V. Benson, Stanley Corngold, Eric Downing, Darryl Gless, Ruth V. Gross, Jonathan Hess, Janice Hewlett Koelb, Alice Kuzniar, Ann Marie Rasmussen, Jeffrey L. Sammons, Gary Shapiro, Kathryn Starkey, Christopher Wild. Eric Downing is Hanes Distinguished Term Professor of German, English, and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Jonathan M. Hess is Professor of German and Moses M. and Hannah L. Malkin Distinguished Term Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Richard V. Benson is Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Valparaiso University.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Introduction / Eric Downing, Jonathan M. Hess, and Richard V. Benson -- Medieval and Early Modern Practices of Reading. Apertio Libri: Codex and Conversion / Christopher Wild -- The Question of Reading and the Medieval Book: Reception and Manuscript -- Variation of Thomasin's Welscher gast / Kathryn Starkey -- Reading in Nuremberg's Fifteenth-Century Carnival Plays / Ann Marie Rasmussen -- Shakespeare, Biblical Interpretation, and the Elusiveness of Meaning / Darryl Gless -- Reading, Secularization, and Transcendence in the Long Nineteenth Century. Reading and the Writing of German-Jewish History / Jonathan M. Hess -- Similia Similibus Curentur: Homeopathy and Its Magic Wand of Analogy / Alice Kuzniar -- Reading and Rhetorical Generation: The Example of Blake's Thel / Janice Hewlett Koelb -- 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 -- Theories and Practices of Reading in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Magic Reading / Eric Downing -- "Anything One Wants": Kafka and Women, Again / Ruth V. Gross -- Reading on the Edge of Oblivion: Virgil and Virgule in Coetzee's Age of Iron / Gary Shapiro -- Postscript: The Ends of Reading. Reading Experience in Faust / Stanley Corngold.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-57113-431-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781580467780
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