The Deed of Reading: Literature * Writing * Language * Philosophy by Garrett Stewart

The Deed of Reading: Literature * Writing * Language * Philosophy

Garrett Stewart

272 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy reflective medium-paced
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Garrett Stewart begins The Deed of Reading with a memory of his first hesitant confrontation, as a teenager, with poetic density. In that early verbal challenge he finds one driving force of literature: to make language young again in its surprise...

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