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目次

1. Introduction; Part I. Contents for reading: 2. Learning to read: theclassics and the curriculum; 3. Reading and the trivium arts; Part II.Reading Practice: 4. Origins and mythologies: the invention of language andmeaning; 5. Reading word by word (1): the role of the vernacular; 6. Readingword by word (2): grammatical and rhetorical approaches; 7. From words to thephrase: the problem of syntax; 8. Government: the theory and practice of agrammatical concept; 9. Rival orders of syntax: vernacular, natural andartificial; 10. From the phrase to the text: grammatical and rhetoricalapproaches again; 11. Naked intention: satire and a new kind of literalreading; 12. Literacy: a new model for the classical text in the middleages?; Bibliography.