The reified focus on the moment of literary production, in a distanced context-the typical topic of periodization-suppresses the experience of reception, the actualization of the past in the reader's present. (Russell Berman)

The reified focus on the moment of literary production, in a distanced context-the typical topic of periodization-suppresses the experience of reception, the actualization of the past in the reader's present.

Russell Berman

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