The Performance of Reading: An Essay in the Philosophy of Literature (New Directions in Aesthetics, #2)

by Peter Kivy

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The Performance of Reading argues that there are distinct analogies between "silent" reading and artistic performance, and so fashions the new role of the reader as performer. * An original and insightful exploration of the act of reading by the leading scholar in the field. * Discusses the history of reading and the transitions from reading aloud to reading silently, and the changing role of literature as communal, active experience to a more private endeavor.
  • ISBN13 9780470777282
  • Publish Date 15 April 2008 (first published 13 September 2006)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Imprint Wiley-Blackwell