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3. Enumerate its major parts in their order and relation, and outline these parts as you have outlined the whole. 4. qxd 28 8/19/2004 4:29 PM Page 28 Michael Warner abstracting meaning from textual form; a vigorously delineated sense of totality (“outline these parts as you have outlined the whole”); an assumption that the text-object was created by the same canons of organization; and so on. Each of these steps posits a prior stage of reading, as the source of the comprehension that equips us to do all these things.

She, too, manipulated the codex format of the Bible in a way that she understood as enjoined upon her in the sincere effort at understanding. 16. Thus saith the Lord, refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears, for thy work shall be rewarded, and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. qxd 8/19/2004 4:29 PM Page 31 Uncritical Reading 31 Rowlandson is just the sort of reader about whom Locke complained; the sense of the whole is not an aim of her reading. Sincere understanding, for her, does not require analytic collation, linguistic comparison, contextual framing, or any other effort at detachment from the rhetoric of address.

10) Our history might evidently be a long one, if we think of critical reading this broadly. But what does “evaluated critically” mean here? This story usefully emphasizes the material conditions for the objectification and segmentation of discourse that are presupposed by the ideal of critical reading; and the contributors to Cavallo and Chartier’s book add many more, such as the triumph of the codex format in antiquity to the elimination of scriptio continua in the late Middle Ages. This scholarship has the great advantage of reminding us that what we call critical reading presupposes forms for textual objectification and a web of social relations around text objects.

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