Kimberly Chabot Davis
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038433
- eISBN:
- 9780252096310
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038433.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This chapter draws distinctions among the reading strategies of white readers in order to shed light on the failures and the political promise of cross-racial empathy. It focuses largely on ...
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This chapter draws distinctions among the reading strategies of white readers in order to shed light on the failures and the political promise of cross-racial empathy. It focuses largely on middle-class white women as they encounter black-authored fiction within book-club settings. In contrast to much of the scholarship on cross-racial sympathy that replicates a monolithic view of whiteness, the chapter emphasizes how multiple identities of gender, class, age, ethnicity, education, and political affiliation work to complicate “white” modes of reading. Given the larger argument that empathy is a key ingredient in the development of anti-racist white identities, this chapter is structured to distinguish among different deployments of empathy and their political consequences.Less
This chapter draws distinctions among the reading strategies of white readers in order to shed light on the failures and the political promise of cross-racial empathy. It focuses largely on middle-class white women as they encounter black-authored fiction within book-club settings. In contrast to much of the scholarship on cross-racial sympathy that replicates a monolithic view of whiteness, the chapter emphasizes how multiple identities of gender, class, age, ethnicity, education, and political affiliation work to complicate “white” modes of reading. Given the larger argument that empathy is a key ingredient in the development of anti-racist white identities, this chapter is structured to distinguish among different deployments of empathy and their political consequences.
Anthony Welch
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300178869
- eISBN:
- 9780300188998
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300178869.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This book offers a close survey of the changing audiences, modes of reading, and cultural expectations that shaped epic writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. According to the book, the ...
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This book offers a close survey of the changing audiences, modes of reading, and cultural expectations that shaped epic writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. According to the book, the theory and practice of epic poetry in this period—including little-known attempts by many epic poets to have their work orally recited or set to music—must be understood in the context of Renaissance musical humanism. This book's approach leads to a fresh perspective on a literary culture that stood on the brink of a new relationship with antiquity and on the history of music in the early modern era.Less
This book offers a close survey of the changing audiences, modes of reading, and cultural expectations that shaped epic writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. According to the book, the theory and practice of epic poetry in this period—including little-known attempts by many epic poets to have their work orally recited or set to music—must be understood in the context of Renaissance musical humanism. This book's approach leads to a fresh perspective on a literary culture that stood on the brink of a new relationship with antiquity and on the history of music in the early modern era.
Lilah Grace Canevaro
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198729549
- eISBN:
- 9780191796401
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198729549.003.0002
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
Chapter 1 explores the dual way in which the Works and Days was experienced in antiquity, its dual reception. It was used both as a piece of extended instruction performed in its own right, and as a ...
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Chapter 1 explores the dual way in which the Works and Days was experienced in antiquity, its dual reception. It was used both as a piece of extended instruction performed in its own right, and as a repository of lines that, when detached from their context, could be applied to almost any scenario. This chapter traces the first mode of reading by following through the poem the narrative and characterizing threads (in particular the Perses Plot), structuring devices, and thematic elements which give the poem its didactic and moral impetus. It traces the second mode of reading through examples of applications. First it examines a particular passage (the Two Roads, 287–92) to show the range of potential uses, then examples from various time periods and contexts to show the longevity and breadth of the Works and Days’ perceived usefulness. 140/5Less
Chapter 1 explores the dual way in which the Works and Days was experienced in antiquity, its dual reception. It was used both as a piece of extended instruction performed in its own right, and as a repository of lines that, when detached from their context, could be applied to almost any scenario. This chapter traces the first mode of reading by following through the poem the narrative and characterizing threads (in particular the Perses Plot), structuring devices, and thematic elements which give the poem its didactic and moral impetus. It traces the second mode of reading through examples of applications. First it examines a particular passage (the Two Roads, 287–92) to show the range of potential uses, then examples from various time periods and contexts to show the longevity and breadth of the Works and Days’ perceived usefulness. 140/5
Hannah Bower
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- March 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780192849496
- eISBN:
- 9780191944611
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780192849496.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
The Conclusion extends the previous chapters’ insights on the interplay between fragment and whole by considering how that interplay might also inform the mode of criticism and reading we practise in ...
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The Conclusion extends the previous chapters’ insights on the interplay between fragment and whole by considering how that interplay might also inform the mode of criticism and reading we practise in relation to medieval recipes. On the one hand, we need to practise a mode of reading that is more fragmentary—that does not try to construct a single narrative of practicality or impracticality but is open to a shifting and unpredictable relationship between these qualities and the individuals involved in the recipes’ production and reception. On the other hand, our way of reading needs to be more holistic and integrative, not only thinking about recipes and the manuscripts that contain them alongside literary texts and manuscripts, but also applying and testing out the same close-reading techniques in relation to both kinds of writing. The chapter ends by acknowledging the many stories left to be told about these quirky and adaptable texts, not least their reinterpretation and material reframing by early modern readers.Less
The Conclusion extends the previous chapters’ insights on the interplay between fragment and whole by considering how that interplay might also inform the mode of criticism and reading we practise in relation to medieval recipes. On the one hand, we need to practise a mode of reading that is more fragmentary—that does not try to construct a single narrative of practicality or impracticality but is open to a shifting and unpredictable relationship between these qualities and the individuals involved in the recipes’ production and reception. On the other hand, our way of reading needs to be more holistic and integrative, not only thinking about recipes and the manuscripts that contain them alongside literary texts and manuscripts, but also applying and testing out the same close-reading techniques in relation to both kinds of writing. The chapter ends by acknowledging the many stories left to be told about these quirky and adaptable texts, not least their reinterpretation and material reframing by early modern readers.
