... A reading like this is akin to Elaine Freedgood's notion of reading as collecting. In addressing ... not entirely sufficient, as I will show. In Freedgood's invocation of Walter Benjamin's notion of ... the specific material and historical genealogies of things (Freedgood 2006, 2). Although crafted to meet the needs ... of things in the Victorian novel in particular, Freedgood's methodology is one that, with certain reservations, ... things in Andtbacka's poems, I suggest that Freedgood affords a fruitful entry point into reading Wunderkammer. ...
Tópico(s): Narrative Theory and Analysis
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... However, this comes with its own challenges. Elaine Freedgood, [End Page 122] for example, notes metonymy's " ... the minds of readers" (13). After Roland Barthes, Freedgood differentiates between "strong" and "weak" readings of metonymy, ...
Tópico(s): Narrative Theory and Analysis
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