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[bekah]

At 1:23 PM -0800 11/4/06, Keith McMullen wrote:
>I didn't even take much Lit. in college so am uneducated about 
>literary criticism. I'm currently reading Eco's _The Limits of 
>Interpretation_ which I find much more entertaining than his novels. 
>Here he strikes a nice balance between the reality of the text and 
>the imagination of the reader. Are there other sources that are 
>along those lines? Ones that would be comprehensible to a laygeezer? 
>Ones that are entertaining as well as informative?


I just don't think that anyone can do it like Eco so I'll recommend 
"Six Walks in a Fictional Woods"  which was published a few years 
after "The Limits of Interpretation."      It covers more territory 
like the suspension of disbelief,  point-of-view,  ideal reader and 
so on.

I'd recommend "On Literature" (Eco) but I haven't read it yet - it 
sits waiting patiently with about 120 other books to be read.

Bekah