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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [1991]Copyright date: ©1992Description: 1 online resource (206 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780271071534
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 801/.951 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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. The ";willing suspension of disbelief,"; which Coleridge said ";constitutes poetic faith,"; therefore empowers and directs the reader to construct an imagined world in which particular hypotheses are proposed and demonstrated.Although the imagination as a central concept in poetics emerges into critical debate only in the eighteenth century, it has been a crucial issue for over two millennia in religious, philosophical, and political discourse. The two recognized alternative methodologies in the study of literature, the poetic and the hermeneutic, are opposed on the issue of the written image: poets and readers feel free to imagine, while hermeneuts feel obliged to specify the meanings of images and, failing that, to minimize the importance of imagery. Recognizing this problem, Collins proposes that reading written texts be regarded as a performance, a unique kind of play that transposes what had once been an oral-dramatic situation onto an inner, imaginary stage. He applies models drawn from the psychology of play to support his theory that reader response is essentially a poietic response to a rule-governed set of ludic cues.
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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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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. The ";willing suspension of disbelief,"; which Coleridge said ";constitutes poetic faith,"; therefore empowers and directs the reader to construct an imagined world in which particular hypotheses are proposed and demonstrated.Although the imagination as a central concept in poetics emerges into critical debate only in the eighteenth century, it has been a crucial issue for over two millennia in religious, philosophical, and political discourse. The two recognized alternative methodologies in the study of literature, the poetic and the hermeneutic, are opposed on the issue of the written image: poets and readers feel free to imagine, while hermeneuts feel obliged to specify the meanings of images and, failing that, to minimize the importance of imagery. Recognizing this problem, Collins proposes that reading written texts be regarded as a performance, a unique kind of play that transposes what had once been an oral-dramatic situation onto an inner, imaginary stage. He applies models drawn from the psychology of play to support his theory that reader response is essentially a poietic response to a rule-governed set of ludic cues.

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In English.

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