Reading With Imagination By Lily Tuck

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“Reading With Imagination” by Lily Tuck: Reaction In this piece, Tuck presents many ideas about the way literary works are written in order to convey her message: that readers must utilize abstract thought in order to effectively grasp various elements of fiction. Tuck establishes the concept of codependency between the reader and the author early on in the piece by quoting the 20th century philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre, but it is her declaration that, “fiction is a creative act, an act of the author’s imagination and likewise, ideally, it should be read with the same imagination”, which solidifies her stance that literature is not meant to be read in the same monotonous and prescribed way we read habitually, but rather it is our responsibility

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