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Peer reviewedSumara, Dennis J. – Theory into Practice, 1998
Reading is an act of identity making. Because readers must complete the act of meaning making, the context and conditions of reading alter the shape of the storytelling event and the trajectory of meaning. This paper explains reading identity and pedagogy, providing techniques one professor used when teaching two novels (marking, tracing,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Literature, Reader Text Relationship
