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Reading and the Body : The Physical Practice of Reading / by Thomas Mc Laughlin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mc Laughlin, Thomas., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Modern--20th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- Fiction.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Fiction Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Local Subjects:
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Fiction Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (221 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Literary theory has been dominated by a mind/body dualism that often eschews the role of the body in reading. Focusing on reading as a physical practice, McLaughlin analyzes the role of the eyes, the hands, postures and gestures, bodily habits and other physical spaces, with discussions ranging from James Joyce to the digital future of reading.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Reading bodies
- The reading eye: hexis and hermeneutics
- Reading posture: discipline and adaptive intelligence
- I'm not here: the reading body in physical and social space
- Sundry ulterior transformations: reading and eating
- The future of the reading body: reading in digital environments.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137522894
- 1137522895
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