Walden or the Violence of the Letter: Toward a Theory of Reading

This article seeks to unfold and contemplate the terms, conditions and consequences of Walden’s groundbreaking theory of reading based on an understanding of the sign as original if not originary, leading to an inversion of the values of sound and echo, presence and absence, reading and literature,...

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Main Author: Isabelle Alfandary
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2017-03-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/4970
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