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Author_Alan Jacobs
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Buffalo Bill Museum
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Cantus Firmus
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Charitable Interpretation
Charitable Readers
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Charles Kinbote
Christian ethics in literature
Dickens's Critics
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hermeneutic theory
Hero's Blushes
Homecoming Festival
interpretive charity
James's Narrator
James's Story
John Shade
kenosis in reading
kinbote
literary criticism methods
love's
Love's Knowl Edge
Magnanimous Man
nabokov's
Nabokov's Pale Fire
Ocular Proof
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Pale Fire
Pavel Florensky
Plains Indian Museum
Quixotic Reader
reader response analysis
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Shade's Poem
Sleary's Circus
Steiner's Categories
theological literary interpretation
Unappeased Desire
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780813365664
- Weight: 370g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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If the whole of the Christian life is to be governed by the "law of love"—the twofold love of God and one's neighbor—what might it mean to read lovingly? That is the question that drives this unique book. Through theological reflection interspersed with readings of literary texts (Shakespeare and Cervantes, Nabokov and Nicholson Baker, George Eliot and W. H. Auden and Dickens), Jacobs pursues an elusive quarry: the charitable reader.
Alan Jacobs is professor of English at Wheaton College in Illinois. He is the author of What Became of Wystan: Change and Continuity in Auden's Poetry, A Visit to Vanity Fair and Other Moral Essays, and many essays of literary and cultural criticism. He is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and Theological Horizons. With his wife and son, he lives in Wheaton, Illinois.
