Tuesday, March 13, 2012

On Perspective

One of the author's I am using for my paper is Elisabeth Camp, a philosopher at the University of Pennsylvania who has written about metaphor, fiction, and some other concepts we have discussed in class. The essay I am reading is call "Perspectives in Imaginative Engagement in Fiction" in which she looks into the paradox of fiction, emotional responses to literary works, and the role of the imagination. She believes that readers of literature adopt a certain perspective, something which structures the way they think and how they relate certain concepts. She believes it includes what a reader may already know about a gene, author, or work and what information we have about the real world. In my paper I argue that we have certain expectations when reading a text in which we desire using our imagination and hoping the authors work is vivid and descriptive as to encourage that  imaginative experience. I was interested to see what elements might belong to your perspective when reading a work or what this idea of the perspective is missing? Thoughts?

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