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Carnal Reading
Joseph Pappa
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Description for Carnal Reading
Hardcover. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 518.
The question of an erotic readership has always vexed scholars. With little evidence of anyone's actually reading erotic material, scholars have had to make do with variations of an "ideal reader" approach. Insofar as it presupposes authorial intention and a stable meaning, this theoretical model proves unsatisfactory. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Carnal Reading: Early Modern Language and Bodies proposes a new theory of erotic reading that refigures bodily responses as constitutive of cognitive understanding. In its content and style, erotic writing was perceived to interact physically with the reader's body-or more specifically, the sensitive soul via the imagination. "Lively" descriptions ... Read more
The question of an erotic readership has always vexed scholars. With little evidence of anyone's actually reading erotic material, scholars have had to make do with variations of an "ideal reader" approach. Insofar as it presupposes authorial intention and a stable meaning, this theoretical model proves unsatisfactory. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Carnal Reading: Early Modern Language and Bodies proposes a new theory of erotic reading that refigures bodily responses as constitutive of cognitive understanding. In its content and style, erotic writing was perceived to interact physically with the reader's body-or more specifically, the sensitive soul via the imagination. "Lively" descriptions ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611490046
SKU
V9781611490046
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99-15
About Joseph Pappa
Joseph Pappa teaches courses on British literature at Binghamton University.
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