Making sense of Literary Works through Customised Digital Books

Arab World English Journal For Translation and Literary Studies ◽

10.24093/awejtls/vol2no4.12 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 164-176

Author(s):

Kara Mostefa-Boussena Leila

Keyword(s):

Literary Works ◽

Making Sense ◽

Digital Books

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6. Making sense of reading

Reading: A Very Short Introduction ◽

10.1093/actrade/9780198820581.003.0006 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 94-113

Author(s):

Belinda Jack

Keyword(s):

Literary Criticism ◽

History Of Reading ◽

Time And Space ◽

Literary Works ◽

Legal Documents ◽

Making Sense ◽

History Of ◽

Philosophical Texts

Reading is an interpretative act and this is not simply the case when it comes to what we think of as more complex writing—religious scriptures, philosophical texts, legal documents, or literary works. The simplest language can need interpretation. Hermeneutics is the discipline that concerns itself with the theory and methodology of interpretation. Its history is crucial to the history of reading and brings to the fore the myriad ways in which reading has been understood across time and space. ‘Making sense of reading’ considers the relationships between rhetoric and translation with reading, and then discusses the study of literature, modern literary criticism, and the concept of rereading.

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‘This Page Intentionally Left Blank’; or, the Apophatic Page

The Rhetoric of the Page ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198862109.003.0002 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 27-108

Author(s):

Laurie Maguire

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Blank Space ◽

Literary Works ◽

Digital Books

Chapter 1 explores how readers interact with and interpret blank space and blank spaces on the early modern page. This is the beginning of this chapter’s enquiry into the ways in which practical typography came to be seen as creative opportunity, for writers as well as readers, and how modern editorial treatment elides that creativity. Part I focuses on the interactive reader generally as he/she is faced with items that invite filling in: incomplete rubrication in incunabula, errata lists, blanks for topical and personal references, initials for names, censorship. Part II covers literary works that exploit gaps and incompletion from the disingenuous ‘desunt nonnulla’ through metrical half-lines, incomplete quotations and gaps in collaborative manuscripts to direct addresses to the reader to fill in blank space left for their use. This section also reviews blanks in different media such as sculpture and cartography. Part III shows how editors treat blanks in print editions and digital books, exploring literary material from the medieval to the early modern.

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Literature, Moral Reflection and Ambiguity

Philosophy ◽

10.1017/s003181911000063x ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 86 (1) ◽

pp. 75-93

Author(s):

Craig Taylor

Keyword(s):

Emotional Response ◽

Central Character ◽

Moral Reflection ◽

Literary Works ◽

Moral Understanding ◽

Significant Element ◽

Making Sense ◽

Blind Spots

AbstractWhile a number of philosophers have argued recently that it is through our emotional response to certain literary works that we might achieve particular moral understanding, what has not been discussed in detail in this connection are works which generate conflicting responses in the reader; which is to say literary works in which there is significant element of ambiguity. Consider Joseph Conrad's novel Lord Jim. I argue that in making sense of our potentially conflicting responses to this novel, and specifically to its central character Jim, we may gain a richer sense of the ways in which literature may contribute to moral understanding – in this case by contributing to an understanding of our own character, its blind spots and its limitations.

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