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Esrock, Ellen J.

 
9780801846694: The Reader's Eye: Visual Imaging as Reader Response
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ISBN 10: 0801846692 ISBN 13: 9780801846694
Editorial: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993

Sinopsis

For centuries the visual imagination was regarded as vital to the reading to literature. Yet, even in their studies of a reader's transactions with a text, contemporary literary theorists and scholars dismiss the importance of mental imagery. When they define meaning as an abstract, language-like entity - as a mental process or linguistic signifier - the visual image can only be an inconsequential distraction or dangerous seduction. In this book, Esrock finds that such attitudes about the image are less well-founded than their advocates suppose. Esrock argues that foundational arguments from science and philosophy - which literary scholars employed against the privileging of the visual imagination - have lost much of their stature in recent years. Drawing on substantive research from various disciplines, she shows that the reader's visual imagery can have unique cognitive and affective consequences that heighten not only the experience of reading, but also the scholarly study of literature.

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Críticas

"Esrock offers a significant contribution of how current psychological and psychoanalytical theory can be creatively adapted to mental imagery in reading." -- Reader's Review



"Provides a solid history and summary of the current positions of a variety of fields on the hitherto neglected topic of readerly imaging." -- Cathleen M. Bauschatz, Philosophy and Literature

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Drawing on substantive research from various disciplines, Ellen Esrock shows that the reader's visual imagery can have unique cognitive and affective consequences that heighten not only the experience of reading but also the scholarly study of literature.

"In exploring the familiar problem of `reader response,' Ellen Esrock shifts the emphasis to visual response--asking what it is that readers `see' in the `mind's eye' as they read. She poses questions in as clear a form as possible, surveys the most important answers provided by literary and psychological scholarship, and suggests directions for further research and reflection. The Reader's Eye is a quite original book."--W. J. T. Mitchell, University of Chicago

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Editorial
Johns Hopkins University Press
Año de publicación
1993
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0801846692
ISBN 13 
9780801846694
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Número de páginas
264
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