Literary Studies and the Pursuits of Reading

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Edited by Eric Downing, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Jonathan M. Hess, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Richard V. Benson, Valparaiso University

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: February 2013
Print publication year:: 2012
Online ISBN:: 9781580467780

Subjects:: Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, European Studies
Series:: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Thirty years ago, when theory emerged as integral to literary studies, investigations into the nature of reading dominated academic criticism. Since then, as cultural studies and historical approaches have gained ascendancy, critical focus on reading has waned. This collection of new essays by leading scholars of German and comparative literature, inspired by the work of the long-time and influential scholar of reading Clayton Koelb, puts the study of reading back at center stage, considering current theory on reading, emotion, and affect alongside historical investigations into cultural practices of reading as they have changed over time. Topics addressed include ancient practices of magic reading; Christian conversionary reading; the emergence of silent reading in the Middle Ages; Renaissance ekphrastic reading; homeopathy, reading and Romanticism; and German-Jewish reading cultures in the nineteenth century. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of literary criticism, German Studies, comparative literature, and European history. Contributors: Richard V. Benson, Stanley Corngold, Eric Downing, Darryl Gless, Ruth V. Gross, Jonathan Hess, Janice Hewlett Koelb, Alice Kuzniar, Ann Marie Rasmussen, Jeffrey L. Sammons, Gary Shapiro, Kathryn Starkey, Christopher Wild. Eric Downing is Hanes Distinguished Term Professor of German, English, and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Jonathan M. Hess is Professor of German and Moses M. and Hannah L. Malkin Distinguished Term Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Richard V. Benson is Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Valparaiso University.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations
pp vii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-14

Part I - Medieval and Early Modern Practices of Reading
pp 15-16

1 - Apertio Libri: Codex and Conversion
pp 17-39

2 - The Question of Reading and the Medieval Book: Reception and Manuscript Variation of Thomasin's Welscher Gast
pp 40-67

3 - Reading in Nuremberg's Fifteenth-Century Carnival Plays
pp 68-83

4 - Shakespeare, Biblical Interpretation, and the Elusiveness of Meaning
pp 84-102

Part II - Reading, Secularization, and Transcendence in the Long Nineteenth Century
pp 103-104

5 - Reading and the Writing of German-Jewish History
pp 105-129

6 - Similia Similibus Curentur: Homeopathy and Its Magic Wand of Analogy
pp 130-147

7 - Reading and Rhetorical Generation: The Example of Blake's Thel
pp 148-167

8 - 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
pp 168-186

Part III - Theories and Practices of Reading in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
pp 187-188

9 - Magic Reading
pp 189-215

10 - “Anything One Wants”: Kafka and Women, Again
pp 216-232

11 - Reading on the Edge of Oblivion: Virgil and Virgule in Coetzee's Age of Iron
pp 233-248

Part IV - Postscript: The Ends of Reading
pp 249-250

12 - Reading Experience in Faust
pp 251-266

Works Cited
pp 267-290

Notes on the Contributors
pp 291-294

Index
pp 295-298

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