Friday, November 6, 2009

Quotes: Reading (10).

Reading interpretation 86 "…implied that not one but a near infinity of readings was possible." [I think by "readings" he means "interpretations." RayS.] Manguel, A History of Reading.


Reading interpretation 89 "Two different ways of reading the Bible developed among Jewish scholars in the sixteenth century…Sephardic schools of Spain and North Africa preferred to summarize the contents of a passage with little discussion of the details that composed it…the Ashkenazi schools based largely in France, Poland, and the Germanic countries analyzed every line and every word, searching for every possible sense." Manguel, A History of Reading.


Reading interpretation 93 "Kafka has been read literally, allegorically, politically, psychologically." Manguel, A History of Reading.


Reading interpretation 173 " …no reading can ever be definitive." Manguel, A History of Reading.


Reading learning how 71 "Medieval Jewish society: …biblical verses were written on peeled hard-boiled eggs and on honey cakes, which the child would eat after reading the verses out loud to the teacher." Manguel, A History of Reading. [The "reward" school of motivation.]

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