The Performance of Reading argues that there are distinct
analogies between ‘silent’ reading and artistic performance, and so
fashions the new role of the reader as performer.
* * An original and insightful exploration of the act of reading by
the leading scholar in the field.
* Discusses the history of reading and the transitions from
reading aloud to reading silently, and the changing role of
literature as communal, active experience to a more private
endeavor.
Table of Content
Preface.
The Performance of Reading.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
About the author
Peter Kivy is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and a past president of the American Society for Aesthetics. He is author of The Possessor and the Possessed: Handel, Mozart, Beethovern, and the Idea of Musical Genius (2001), New Essays on Musical Understanding (2001), and Introduction to a Philosophy of Music (2002), and editor of The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics (Blackwell, 2004).
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