Thursday, November 30, 2017

Good Readers Versus Bad Readers

The good reader’s cultural elevation always relied on his oppositional relationship to the curiously undifferentiated mass of bad readers, who struck Nabokov—and have struck many teachers and literary scholars since—as a kind of irritating background noise; always already present and unworthy of any serious or systematic consideration.



Article source here:Arts Journal

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