Reading the Written Image : : Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia /

Reading the Written Image : : Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia / / Christopher Collins.

Reading the Written Image is a study of the imagination as it is prompted by the verbal cues of literature. Since every literary image is also a mental image, a representation of an absent entity, Collins contends that imagination is a poiesis, a making-up, an act of play for both author and reader....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Collins, Christopher,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [1991]
©1992
Year of Publication:1991
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (206 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • 1. LITERACY AND THE OPENING OF THE INNER EYE
  • 2. VISIONARY PLACES
  • 3. SCRIPTURE AND POIESIS
  • 4. EMPIRICISM AND INTERPRETIVE METHOD
  • 5. INTERPRETATION AND THE POETICS OF PERFORMANCE
  • 6. THE POETIC FOCUS
  • 7. POETIC FAITH AND THE WRITTEN IMAGE
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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