Performance of Reading
Subtitle: An Essay in the Philosophy of Literature (New Directions in Aesthetics)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated
Published: September 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781405146920
Subjects: Literary theory; Silent reading; Oral interpretation; Education; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Readers' theater; Speech; Performing Arts / General; History & Surveys - General; Philosophy & Social Aspects
Description: "In this essay, Peter Kivy argues that there are distinct analogies between "silent" reading and performance. Readers have an "experience" when they read silently to themselves akin to the experience one would have had when the rhapsode recited Homer to the citizens of Plato's Athens. Kivy makes the case for a deeper understanding and appreciation of literary works by suggesting that readers are performers of the works they read, and their performances recitations to the "inner ear.""--Jacket.