Carnal Reading (eBook)

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2011
160 Seiten
University of Delaware Press (Verlag)
978-1-61149-005-3 (ISBN)

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Carnal Reading -  Joseph Pappa
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The question of an erotic readership has always vexed scholars. With little evidence of anyone's actually reading erotic material, scholars have made due with variations of an "ideal reader" approach. Insofar as it presupposes authorial intention and a stable meaning this theoretical model proves unsatisfactory. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Carnal Reading proposes a new theory of erotic reading that refigures bodily responses as constitutive of cognitive understanding. Chapters explore the enthusiasm inspired by religious reading, the impressionable and "permeable" nature of the early modern body, contemporary literary critiques and the potential eroticism immanent in language.
The question of an erotic readership has always vexed scholars. With little evidence of anyones actually reading erotic material, scholars have had to make do with variations of an ideal reader approach. Insofar as it presupposes authorial intention and a stable meaning, this theoretical model proves unsatisfactory. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Carnal Reading: Early Modern Language and Bodies proposes a new theory of erotic reading that refigures bodily responses as constitutive of cognitive understanding. In its content and style, erotic writing was perceived to interact physically with the readers body-or more specifically, the sensitive soul via the imagination. Lively descriptions infused desires that could permanently affect not only the entire animal economy, or constitution, but also a persons reasoning faculties. All good writing was meant to move the passions, but there was no way to determine whether the warmth derived from reading was erotic or otherwise.Chapter 1, Thoughts Swelled with Carnosity: Imagination, Enthusiasm, and Love, briefly rehearses Adrian Johns account of how religious reading can inspire enthusiasm in readers. This understanding of how religious reading inflames the imagination applies equally well to amorous discourses. The Passions: Music, Infusion, and Teen-Age Reading Habits (chapter 2) examines early modern conduct books and discourses about music to illustrate the notion of the early modern body as permeable and, as such, impressionable to all forms of stimulating media. The chapter offers a close reading of Manleys New Atalantis to demonstrate how reading habits could transform a young persons constitution. Chapter 3, The Physiological Aesthetics of Erotic Response: Intention, Style, Association, focuses on contemporary literary critiques that privilege lively depictions and the consequences that style has on authorial intention. The final chapter, Sexy Rhetoric: Nice Figures, or Books that Do It the old Grammar rule

Joseph Pappa currently teaches courses on British literature at Binghamton University.

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