‘Reading literature’is a category of explanation for literary experience in reading.But as a result of lack of discussion on this category caused, discussion on literaryexperience was insufficient too. To make progress in discussion from a few pre...
‘Reading literature’is a category of explanation for literary experience in reading.But as a result of lack of discussion on this category caused, discussion on literaryexperience was insufficient too. To make progress in discussion from a few preceding studies to help usunderstand on reading literature, I defined it as reflectional perception onliteraturing, and examined the specialty of reading process in distinction from generalreading. In this process of examination I focused some concepts, as like ‘literarytext’, ‘reader(s)’, ‘act of reading’, and ‘index of works’, of reading literature,reconceptualized for it, and made 10 principles from these reconceptualized ideas asfollows;principle 1. Reading literature is an act to read a work, called as literaturealready, as a text.principle 2. Reading literature is a process of imaginational experience inimaginary world of literary work.principle 3. A reader requires pre-experience for reading literature.principle 4. A reader needs to possess diverse metaphoric schemas forreading literature.principle 5. A literature reader needs to motivate for imaginationalexperience.principle 6. A literature reader reads his own imaginational experience.principle 7. Literary experience is a process of resonance.