We are told that reading enlarges our horizons, that reading literature extends our experience beyond what we have happened upon in our own lives. But the moral and political dangers that attend the association of reading with experience have long been understood. And is that association even valid? What if precisely our most important literary texts are constructed so as to challenge or disrupt it?This book conducts a radical criticism of the concept of reading, especially of the concept of thereader, as these concepts are ...
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We are told that reading enlarges our horizons, that reading literature extends our experience beyond what we have happened upon in our own lives. But the moral and political dangers that attend the association of reading with experience have long been understood. And is that association even valid? What if precisely our most important literary texts are constructed so as to challenge or disrupt it?This book conducts a radical criticism of the concept of reading, especially of the concept of thereader, as these concepts are commonly used in literary criticism. It sketches in broad terms the historical provenance of thereader, in an argument that includes discussions of Dante, Boccaccio, Cervantes, Marlowe, and German idealist philosophy, then suggests that most major European literary works since the eighteenth century are written in direct opposition to the central concepts by which criticism has sought to lay hold of them
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