Information about the phenomenology of love and reading forthcoming from bloomsbury in november skip to main content cassandra falke download pdf download full pdf package this paper a short summary of this paper 37 full pdfs related to this paper read paper the phenomenology of love and reading. Cassandra falke presents to the reader a plea not merely to love reading but to love the text one reads and it is not just to be fond of the text but to eroti we use cookies to enhance your experience on our websiteby continuing to use our website you are agreeing to our use of cookies. The phenomenology of love and reading paperback the current revival of interest in ethics in literary criticism coincides fortuitously with a revival. Cassandra falke shows how reading can strengthen our capacity to love by giving us practice in loves habits attention empathy and a willingness to be overwhelmed confounding our expectations literature equips us for the confounding events of love which falke suggests are not rare and fleeting but rather constitute the most meaningful and durable part of our everyday life. Cassandra falke shows how reading can strengthen our capacity to love by giving us practice in loves habits attention empathy and a willingness to be overwhelmed confounding our expectations literature equips us for the confounding events of love which falke suggests are not rare and fleeting but rather constitute the most meaningful and durable part of our everyday life