Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Reader- Response Criticism
I think as readers, we all go through the experience of interpretive vertigo, which creates a wall of not knowing enough information about what were reading or not comprehending. On pg. 126, Stanley Fish argues that any school of criticism that would see a work of literature as an object, that would claim to describe what it is and never what it does, is guilty of misconstruing what literature and reading really are. Though it is true because literature is more of history and reading it is what brings literature alive. For instance, if you visit an art museum you not only visit but try to interpret what the artist has drawn. You may look at the colors to figure out the mood of the work of art or maybe the drawing itself to find something significant about the artist. I am a true believer of what we live through is the guidance of comprehending a text and making it relevant to understand it even more.
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Your post was really thought-provoking. It's true that reading and literature really can't be "defined" with just a few words or sentences, since they are concepts that are constantly alive and changing. I like the idea that literature is what we interpret it to be, and that it exists relevant to us, the readers and writers.
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