The Performance of Reading argues that there are distinctanalogies between "silent" reading and artistic performance, and sofashions the new role of the reader as performer.
* * An original and insightful exploration of the act of reading bythe leading scholar in the field.
* Discusses the history of reading and the transitions fromreading aloud to reading silently, and the changing role ofliterature as communal, active experience to a more privateendeavor.