[Milton-L] Fish and Milton

[Jameela Lares]

The reader agrees.

(By the way, I realize that my syntax yesterday was outrageous.  One sentence should be taken out and shot.  I plead grading overload.)

Jameela Lares
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From: milton-l-bounces at lists.richmond.edu [milton-l-bounces at lists.richmond.edu] On Behalf Of James Rovira [jamesrovira at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 11:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [Milton-L] Fish and Milton

I bet they were taught not to use first person in their writing.

Jim R

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Jameela Lares <Jameela.Lares at usm.edu> wrote:
> On the other hand, I am fervently weary of the way reader response criticism is being taught in high school.  I can barely break my students of their knee-jerk impulse to refer to the tendency of "the reader"--as if there is only one!--to share the particular insight (or lack thereof) of that the particular student happens to see.  "The reader finds this text very difficult to read."  "What the reader notices is yadda yadda yadda."  "The reader is reading all the reading that is there to be read."  Sometimes I believe I am on a one-person campaign to rid the world of metadiscursive solipsism.
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> Jameela Lares