Dear Jim,
You might find Brian Stock, _The Implications of Literacy_, especially his
chapter 4, useful. It seems to me that he addresses some of your questions
there.
At 10:36 AM 16.4.97 GMT, you wrote:
>Thanks for all the suggestions. I had thought about Carruthers, but
>some insightful postgrad has his/her hands on it presently, and so I will have
>a library person snatch it away.
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>I don't know if this is a facile observation, but the way Grosseteste
>employs the image, it is not about constructing the past, but rather
>the present. The sermon (which I am tempted to think was his
>inaugural lecture when he became master of theology at Oxford) starts
>off with an Ezechiel pericope about scripture being written externally
>and internally (foris et intus). RG exploits this image by arguing
>that this is a reading strategy a la four senses of Scripture (you
>can guess which is external and which is internal). When it comes to
>discussing the allegorical and moral sense, he argues that this
>reading must be reflexive, whereupon he then speaks of the human mind
>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.
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>I realise that one cannot extricate memory from the act of reading,
>but I think he talking about something different than what interests
>Clanchy or Geary.
>
>Does this make sense? I am new to literary theory, and I have
>found Eco's essays in the Limits of Interpretation very useful as
>well as Anthony Thiselton's heavy going survey, New Horizons in
>Hermenuetics. Any further bits of wisdom would be most welcome.
>
>Thanks again.
>Jim
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