The deed of reading : literature * writing * language * philosophy /

Garrett Stewart begins The Deed of Reading with a memory of his first hesitant confrontation, as a teenager, with poetic density. In that early verbal challenge he finds one driving force of literature: to make language young again in its surprise, coming alive in each new event of reading. But what...

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Main Author: Stewart, Garrett (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2015
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Literature.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Induction
  • Secondary vocality
  • Errands of the ear
  • Imp-aired words
  • Splitting the difference
  • Talking room
  • After wording.