4. Foster talks about the relationship between the reader and the writer suggesting that “reading is an event of the imagination... a reader’s imagination is the act of one creative intelligence engaging another (the writer’s). How does this occur? What does this suggest about the nature and process of reading and writing?
Reading is an act of imagination because it requires the reader to interact with the text and picture the described scenario. Because of this, reading is highly individual; no two readers will have the same experience from the same book. This is not only due to how readers picture each scenario, it is also due to what each reader gets out of the reading experience. No two readers will have the same literary experience and background. No two readers will have the same personal background. And no two readers will have the same intellectual capability. Because of this, every reader will get something entirely different out of the text. Likewise, each individual reader engages with the author in a different way. Just like the reader, the author’s literary background, personal experience and intellect affect what they put into the text. Despite this however, each reader may not pick up on what exactly the author intended. But when a reader does pick up on these things, it creates a personal engagement between the author and the reader.
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