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Reading the Written Image: Verbal Play Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia
Reading the Written Image Verbal Play Interpretation and the Roots of Iconophobia
Author: Christopher Collins
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 making-up, an act of play for both author and reader. The "willing suspension of disbelief," which ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780271028422
ISBN-10: 0271028424
Publication Date: 11/1/1991
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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