Friday, December 20, 2013

Opening up to "On Close Readings"

In "On Close Readings," Peter Rabinowitz talks about how close reading is not the only way to read literature. He states that close readers tend create a "distortion" of  works because they want to read however they want to . Rabinowitz says that there are many ways to read a piece. It depends on authors, genre, periods of time, and culture. You have to modify your reading style each time you read a different piece. 

I strongly agree with argument of Mr. Rabinowitz. I agree that you have to approach different type of literature in different ways. You can not use the same "template" for each piece. I would read and interpret differently my Twilight book from my Romeo and Juliet. The plots,setting, time periods, and even language is different. However, they are both pieces of literature. 

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