edited by Eric Downing, Jonathan M. Hess, and Richard V. Benson
vi, 298 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-290) and index
Introduction / Eric Downing, Jonathan M. Hess, and Richard V. Benson -- Medieval and Early Modern Practices of Reading. Apertio Libri: Codex and Conversion / Christopher Wild -- The Question of Reading and the Medieval Book: Reception and Manuscript -- Variation of Thomasin's Welscher gast / Kathryn Starkey -- Reading in Nuremberg's Fifteenth-Century Carnival Plays / Ann Marie Rasmussen -- Shakespeare, Biblical Interpretation, and the Elusiveness of Meaning / Darryl Gless -- Reading, Secularization, and Transcendence in the Long Nineteenth Century. Reading and the Writing of German-Jewish History / Jonathan M. Hess -- Similia Similibus Curentur: Homeopathy and Its Magic Wand of Analogy / Alice Kuzniar -- Reading and Rhetorical Generation: The Example of Blake's Thel / Janice Hewlett Koelb -- Sender Glatteis Reads Lessing and Comes to a Sad End: Some Thoughts on Karl Emil Franzos's Der Pojaz and the Problem of Jewish Reading / Jeffrey L. Sammons -- Theories and Practices of Reading in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Magic Reading / Eric Downing -- "Anything One Wants": Kafka and Women, Again / Ruth V. Gross -- Reading on the Edge of Oblivion: Virgil and Virgule in Coetzee's Age of Iron / Gary Shapiro -- Postscript: The Ends of Reading. Reading Experience in Faust / Stanley Corngold