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The Performance of Reading: An Essay in the Philosophy of Literature - New Directions in Aesthetics
Peter Kivy
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The Performance of Reading: An Essay in the Philosophy of Literature - New Directions in Aesthetics
Peter Kivy
In this insightful and provocative 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.
176 pages, illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | October 3, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9781405188234 |
| Publishers | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Pages | 176 |
| Dimensions | 229 × 154 × 15 mm · 280 g |
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