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Page vii
... conception of sight , it is argued , asserted itself at the ex- pense of the " participational involvement of more absorptive visual modes " ( Jay 1988 : 8 ) and continued to hold Western culture in its thrall for almost three hundred ...
... conception of sight , it is argued , asserted itself at the ex- pense of the " participational involvement of more absorptive visual modes " ( Jay 1988 : 8 ) and continued to hold Western culture in its thrall for almost three hundred ...
Page ix
... conception of the relationship between perceiver and perceived , in favour of a discontinuous , passive , and interioristic optics . While the most immediate function of these chapters is to enable the literary readings in the chapters ...
... conception of the relationship between perceiver and perceived , in favour of a discontinuous , passive , and interioristic optics . While the most immediate function of these chapters is to enable the literary readings in the chapters ...
Page xxxiv
... conceptions of sight and the emergence of an ' enclosed ' counterpart can be traced in visual theory as well as ... conception of sight as something continuous , specular , and poten- tially unitive . Understood in this way , sight ...
... conceptions of sight and the emergence of an ' enclosed ' counterpart can be traced in visual theory as well as ... conception of sight as something continuous , specular , and poten- tially unitive . Understood in this way , sight ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | iii |
THE DARK LANTERN | 45 |
THE REFORMED EYE | 107 |
Copyright | |
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