How and Why Books Matter: Essays on the Social Function of Iconic Texts

by James W Watts and James W. Watts

Book Overview

Religious and secular communities ritualize some books in one, two, or three dimensions. They ritualize the dimension of semantic interpretation through teaching, preaching, and scholarly commentary. This dimension receives almost all the attention of academic scholars. Communities also ritualize a text's expressive dimension through public reading, recitation, and song, and also by reproducing its contents in art, theatre and film. This dimension...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781797684
• ISBN13: 9781781797686
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"