Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Medieval and Early Modern Practices of Reading
6. 1: Apertio Libri: Codex and Conversion 17
7. 2: The Question of Reading and the Medieval Book: Reception and Manuscript Variation of Thomasin’s Welscher Gast 40
8. 3: Reading in Nuremberg’s Fifteenth-Century Carnival Plays 68
9. 4: Shakespeare, Biblical Interpretation, and the Elusiveness of Meaning 84
10. Part II: Reading, Secularization, and Transcendence in the Long Nineteenth Century
11. 5: Reading and the Writing of German- Jewish History 105
12. 6: Similia Similibus Curentur: Homeopathy and Its Magic Wand of Analogy 130
13. 7: Reading and Rhetorical Generation: The Example of Blake’s Thel 148
14. 8: Sender Glatteis Reads Lessing and Comes to a Sad End: Some Thoughts on Karl Emil Franzos’s Der Pojaz and the Problem of Jewish Reading 168
15. Part III: Theories and Practices of Reading in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
16. 9: Magic Reading 189
17. 10: “Anything One Wants”: Kafka and Women, Again 216
18. 11: Reading on the Edge of Oblivion: Virgil and Virgule in Coetzee’s Age of Iron 233
19. Part IV: Postscript: The Ends of Reading
20. 12: Reading Experience in Faust 251
21. Works Cited 267
22. Notes on the Contributors 291
23. Index 295