The Incarnate Word: Literature as Verbal Space |
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... reader and the text . Although I am concerned with the experience of literature , my approach is not simply impressionistic . I see literature as a unique process in which the self of the reader is transformed by an external verbal ...
... reader and the text . Although I am concerned with the experience of literature , my approach is not simply impressionistic . I see literature as a unique process in which the self of the reader is transformed by an external verbal ...
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... reader at the hub . Although the essays are arranged histori- cally , the image of the wheel also suggests a recurring archetype of perception , in which each spoke rises in its turn - the same yet dif- ferent . The book is structured ...
... reader at the hub . Although the essays are arranged histori- cally , the image of the wheel also suggests a recurring archetype of perception , in which each spoke rises in its turn - the same yet dif- ferent . The book is structured ...
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... reader finds it incompatible with his own speech . Yet the novels have entered the reader's experience ; their language now exists in his body . Attempting to exert his sense of personal continuity , the reader rejects this violated ...
... reader finds it incompatible with his own speech . Yet the novels have entered the reader's experience ; their language now exists in his body . Attempting to exert his sense of personal continuity , the reader rejects this violated ...
Contents
ONE Introduction | 3 |
the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
Copyright | |
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