Word: readerly
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...eg’s work is hard to place.In answer to accusations of obscurity, Høeg advises us to read his book again. “I had a lot of time to work [the plot] together into something very condensed. I felt I was taking the reader to the edge; I might have gone farther than I realised.” Though Høeg may have had a decade to write the novel, now available in English thanks to a translation by Nadia Christensen, we unfortunately do not have as much time to decode it. The concept...
...Considering the audience is at the core of writing,” said Gregory A. Harris, preceptor in expository writing and last year’s editor of “Exposé.” After immersing themselves in research and academia, writers often assume that readers understand the jargon and conventions of specialists, Pinker said. “With apologies to Yeats, I’d argue that we aren’t trying to create monuments to our own magnificence when we write—we’re trying to teach our readers to understand...
...part of the storyteller's art to reveal a single defining moment in a character's life, the inflection point at which the reader gains some insight into what makes the person tick. Huck escapes from his father and sets off down the river. Lear banishes Cordelia. Bogart reaches into his jacket pocket and gives Bergman the papers...
...Google is currently working with Harvard’s library, among others, to scan all public domain books. The company is also scanning copyrighted books, although not at Harvard, allowing them to be searched but not read in their entirety, but faces legal challenges from publishers. Google enables the reader to search these online tomes as well as locate them in the library nearest them. COSTS AND BENEFITSThe goal of all of these programs is open access, but Google isn’t a universal solution. Robert C. Darnton ’60, the current director of the Harvard University...
...National Book Award winner rattles her readers’ emotions, but manages to bring them safely into harbor. Despite the seemingly jumbled writing style and lack of a specific pattern to the book, Valentine creates a truly unique meditation on dark subject matter made bright. Valentine captivates the reader on a number of different levels, creating a poetic collage with a chaos of words and scattered syntax and punctuation. Although a bit difficult to follow at first, the inconsistent punctuation and spacing that characterizes Valentine’s writing ultimately proves to be one of the book?...