Literary Criticism Theory

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Anna Karenina Reads on the Train: Readerly Subjectivity and the Poetics of the Novel by Yi-Ping Ong (www.jstor.org)

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This is a really interesting article on the subjectivity of the reader when experiencing a novel. It likens one’s ability to “read” themselves to how one reads a novel, and explores the impact that has on the reader’s perceptions of themselves by looking at Tolstoy’s character Anna Karenina.

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