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Paperback How and Why Books Matter: Essays on the Social Function of Iconic Texts Book
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ISBN: 1781797684

ISBN13: 9781781797686

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

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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...

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