Literary studies and the pursuits of reading
By: edited by Eric Downing, Jonathan M. Hess, and Richard V. Benson
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781571134318
Subjects: Books and reading; German literature; History and criticism; Literature and society; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Eric Downing, Jonathan M. Hess, and Richard V. Benson; title: Medieval and Early Modern Practices of Reading. Apertio Libri: Codex and Conversion / Christopher Wild; title: The Question of Reading and the Medieval Book: Reception and Manuscript; title: Variation of Thomasin's Welscher gast / Kathryn Starkey; title: Reading in Nuremberg's Fifteenth-Century Carnival Plays / Ann Marie Rasmussen; title: Shakespeare, Biblical Interpretation, and the Elusiveness of Meaning / Darryl Gless; title: Reading, Secularization, and Transcendence in the Long Nineteenth Century. Reading and the Writing of German-Jewish History / Jonathan M. Hess; title: Similia Similibus Curentur: Homeopathy and Its Magic Wand of Analogy / Alice Kuzniar; title: Reading and Rhetorical Generation: The Example of Blake's Thel / Janice Hewlett Koelb; title: 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; title: Theories and Practices of Reading in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Magic Reading / Eric Downing; title: "Anything One Wants": Kafka and Women, Again / Ruth V. Gross; title: Reading on the Edge of Oblivion: Virgil and Virgule in Coetzee's Age of Iron / Gary Shapiro; title: Postscript: The Ends of Reading. Reading Experience in Faust / Stanley Corngold.