> James R Ginther wrote:
>
> as a book written foris et intus. The point he is making is that the
> spiritual reading produces a change (reader-response???) in the
> reader, which is then reintroduced into the reading process. The
> reader does not focus on the past, but rather on the present activity of
> reading and the changes it produces in the reader.
>
Jim,
This idea reminds me of some of the Augustinian ideas of reading that Brian Stock
discusses in *Augustine the Reader* (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U.P., 1995 or 1996). The
book is tough going, but very interesting. Stock shows that much of what we think of as
reader-response has roots in Augustine's theories of mind and reading.
Happy hunting!
Eric Reiter
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