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Journal Article
Ben Jonson and His Reader
2013
Overview
The argument unfolds at two levels: one, it shows the antagonism with which Ben Jonson is inflicted in his negotiations with his readers, both in his performance as a poet-man and a poet-artist; and, second, Jonson's idea of the reader is then transculturized agonistically with the ancient and medieval Chinese notion of the reader and the text, the ideal reader in the Abbasid period in Arabic literary history and the philosophy of sahridaya drawn from Sanskrit aesthetic theories. Antagonizing the Poet-Ape, Jonson cultivated, with self-conscious ardor, the poet-artisan who inflicts the labor of art on his reader or spectator to achieve a \"hard-edged effect.\\n In line with Jonson's sensitiveness to the readerly community where, as I have argued, the poet and the critic nearly become the same person, the Abb.sid poets, by \"inventing\" an ideal reader became both the creators and the internal critics of their work.
