Second Thoughts: A Focus on Rereading

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David Galef
Wayne State University Press, 1998 - 383 pagini
How does our perspective change after the first reading? What distortions emerge through repetition? How do we determine what's worth rereading and what is the role of such repetition in our lives? What are the gains and losses? This work investigates the rereading of texts from various genres.
 

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Preface
7
Observations on Rereading
17
Running Titles
34
Some Historical Paradoxes
51
Tradition as Rereading
75
A Psychoanalytic
126
The Readers
152
Rereading Guillaume de Machauts Vision
169
Rereading Character in Much
228
Perversion and Prolepsis in À
249
Gertrude Stein and Disjunctive Rereading
266
Two Modes of Rereading in the TwentiethCentury
294
Rereading Hypertext
321
Some Thoughts on Rereading
340
Doing Time or How to Reread on a Desert Island
357
Index
367

Spensers Letter
196

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