Reading theories

Translation: Mahmoud Ahmed Abdullah The author of this book aimed to reconsider reading theories in light of a central concept which is the corporeality of reading. Literary theory and efforts made to understand reading in all its forms, despite their differences, have made the reader a rational and thinking self, not a self with sensory and emotional passion. The author traces the roots of this conflict between the body — as an expression of feelings and emotions — and the objective mind contemplating in the fields of interest in reading and the literary text.