Reading and the Body [electronic resource] : The Physical Practice of Reading /
Mc Laughlin, Thomas.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Literature, Modern
Fiction.
Literature
Culture
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.