Abstract

KEMPINSKA, Olga Donata Guerizoli. Reading and its alimentary metaphors. LTP [online]. 2016, vol.34, n.66, pp.61-74. ISSN 2317-0972.  https://doi.org/10.5965/0102-387Xv34n662016074.

The popularization of the practice of reading as a solitary and silent act since the 18th century had as its result the elimination of the body experience manifested in public and oral reading. In response to this emphasis on immobility and the abstract assimilation as main features of the act of reading, the alimentary metaphors quickly subverted the absence of reader's corporal and visceral activities. This paper investigates some of the semantic reverberations of the alimentary metaphors of reading, especially those in touch with the subversion of the reader's activity as purely spiritual, and with the questioning, from a point of view receptive to the body relations, of some aesthetic notions.

Keywords : Reading; Body; Reader-Response Theory; Esthetic Distance.

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