Kivy The Performance of Reading

An Essay in the Philosophy of Literature
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77728-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: New Directions in Aesthetics

The Performance of Reading argues that there are distinctanalogies between "silent" reading and artistic performance, and sofashions the new role of the reader as performer.
* * An original and insightful exploration of the act of reading bythe leading scholar in the field.
* Discusses the history of reading and the transitions fromreading aloud to reading silently, and the changing role ofliterature as communal, active experience to a more privateendeavor.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kivy, Peter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
The Performance of Reading.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Kivy is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and a past president of the American Society for Aesthetics. He is author of The Possessor and the Possessed: Handel, Mozart, Beethovern, and the Idea of Musical Genius (2001), New Essays on Musical Understanding (2001), and Introduction to a Philosophy of Music (2002), and editor of The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics (Blackwell, 2004).