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Detail and reading
Detail and reading

Author(s): Paweł Graf
Contributor(s): Małgorzata Olsza (Translator)
Subject(s): Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: detailed reading; detail in literature; interpretation; particular in literature; slow reading;

Summary/Abstract: This theoretical article discusses how the detail may function in the text and what reading strategies it calls for. The article aims to present a model of a counter-text, which exists, as if, alternatively to the text proper – it emerges when the reader examines the textual details and the contexts they open.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 30
  • Page Range: 24-35
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English