This paper explains the theoretical motivation and background for using intellectual and literary historiography as potential sources for the study of reading as an ‘embodied’ and ‘distributed’ activity. It illustrates the theory by way of examples from different periods and cultural contexts. It focusses on explaining the concept of the ‘scene of reading’ and, in particular, the role of gesture in reading and its literary depiction.

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托勒·莱格。体现阅读和“阅读场景”

本文解释了将思想史和文学史学作为研究“体现的”和“分布的”活动的潜在来源的理论动机和背景。它通过来自不同时期和文化背景的实例来说明该理论。它着重于解释“阅读场景”的概念，尤其是手势在阅读及其文学描写中的作用。