Reading the Written Image: Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia by Christopher Collins

Reading the Written Image: Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia

Christopher Collins

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nonfiction history literary psychology informative medium-paced
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Reading the Written Image is a study of the imagination as it is prompted by the verbal cues of literature. Since every literary image is also a mental image, a representation of an absent entity, Collins contends that imagination is a poiesis, a ...

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