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The Deed of Reading - Literature * Writing * Language * Philosophy (Hardcover)
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The Deed of Reading - Literature * Writing * Language * Philosophy (Hardcover)
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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 exactly happens in the
textual encounter to make literary phrasing resonate so deeply with
readers? To take the measure of literary writing, The Deed of
Reading convenes diverse philosophic commentary on the linguistics
of literature, with stress on the complementary work of Stanley
Cavell and Giorgio Agamben. Sympathetic to recent ventures in
form-attentive analysis but resisting an emphasis on so-called
surface reading, Stewart explores not some new formalism but the
internal pressures of language in formation, registering the verbal
infrastructure of literary prose as well as verse. In this mode of
"contextual" reading, the context is language itself. Literary
phrasing, tapping the speech act's own generative pulse, emerges as
a latent philosophy of language in its own right, whereby human
subjects, finding no secure place to situate themselves within
language, settle for its taking place in, through, and between
them. Stewart watches and hears this dynamics of wording played out
in dozens of poems and novels over two centuries of English
literary production-from Wordsworth and Shelley to Browning and
Hopkins, from Poe and Dickens through George Eliot, Conrad, James,
and on to Toni Morrison. The Deed of Reading offers a revisionary
contribution to the ethic of verbal attention in the grip of "deep
reading."
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