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Don't professional readers (i.e. writers, lit critics, or just close readers) also read literature differently than casual readers?
by georgeoliver 13y ago
Don't professional readers (i.e. writers, lit critics, or just close readers) also read literature differently than casual readers?
- vanderZwan 13y agoI'm not in any of those professions, so I can't say for sure, but at the very least I assume they understand the medium itself at such a deep level they automatically break down any story they read to different stages. For example: the deeper, structural level, the broader social context the work was created in, the literary context (other works explicitly and implicitly referenced), and so foth. I know something like that happens with me now when I look at art after going through art school - Micheal Parson's "Talk about a painting: A cognitive developmental analysis" is an excellent paper on the topic. AFAIK it's only available behind a paywall though: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3332812?uid=3738736&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21103680072071 http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3332812?uid=3738736&ui...