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The Deed of Reading: Literature * Writing * Language * Philosophy

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Garrett Stewart begins The Deed of Reading with a memory of his first hesitant confrontation, as a teenager, with poetic density. In that early verbal challenge he finds one driving force of literature: to make language young again in its surprise, coming alive in each new event of reading. But what exactly happens in the textual encounter to make literary phrasing resonate so deeply with readers?To take the measure  Read more...

Author(s): Garrett Stewart
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Year: 2015

Language: English
Pages: x+256
Tags: Literature -- Philosophy;Books and reading -- Philosophy;Language and languages -- Philosophy;LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory;PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics;Lesen;Literatur;Literaturtheorie;Sprachphilosophie;Poetik

Induction --
Secondary vocality --
Errands of the ear --
Imp-aired words --
Splitting the difference --
Talking room --
After wording.