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Ethics through literature : ascetic and aesthetic reading in Western culture / Brian Stock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stock, Brian, author.
- Series:
- Menahem Stern Jerusalem lectures.
- The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature and morals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (188 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Hanover, Germany : University Press of New England, [2007]
- Summary:
- "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 beyond, to Coleridge and Schopenhauer, Stock reveals the ascetic or ethical as a constant with the aesthetic serving as opposition, parallel force, and handmaiden, underscoring the historical consistency of the reading experience through the ages and across various media."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- The reader's dilemma
- The ascetic reader
- The aesthetic reader.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [141]-159) and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Stock, Brian Ethics Through Literature
- ISBN:
- 9781684581436
- 1684581435
- OCLC:
- 1334662679
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