Literary studies and the pursuits of reading / edited by Eric Downing, Jonathan M. Hess, and Richard V. Benson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Downing, Eric.

Hess, Jonathan M., 1965-2018.

Benson, Richard V.

Series:

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--Germany--History.

Books and reading.

Germany.

History.

Literature and society--Germany--History.

Literature and society.

German literature--History and criticism.

German literature.

Physical Description:

vi, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, [2012]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-290) and index.

ISBN:

9781571134318

157113431X

OCLC:

773020983