II. Setting the practice (of swimming? of reading? in synch? a-synchronously?) within a theoretical framework W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley, The Verbal Icon (1954) (What's an icon??) |
...with what Jane Tompkins did in "An Introduction to Reader-Response Criticism" (1980):
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Another (major?) turn of the screw: working this idea of reading AS doing.... Jane Tompkins, The Reader in History: The Changing Shape of Literary Response (1980):
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Kathy Rowe, et. al. Reading the Early Modern Passions; Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion (2004): our modern inclination to script passions as individual and proprietary...leads us to miss those feelings that come from the outside....This same movement...seems to parallel an increasing sense of...literature's "ethical uselessness"...the separation of the expressive arts from other spheres of experience and knowledge...the private inaccessibility of emotions...marks the end of the humanist confidence that drama can rehabilitate unruly passions in the service of the state... |