Garner, Dwight (b. 1965)

The Reader as Artist, Intuitively Plumbing a Psychic Well: 'What We See When We Read,' by Peter Mendelsund [from the New York Times]

July 31, 2014

"He prints a few descriptive sentences of a couple walking together from Wharton's 'House of Mirth,' and mentally X-rays them."

He can be a canny close reader. He prints a few descriptive sentences of a couple walking together from Wharton's "House of Mirth," and mentally X-rays them. "It is helpful that we are told about the shape of this character's hair, and the thickness of her lashes," he writes, "but what is truly being communicated to us is a rhythm. The rhythm, in turn, conveys a young man's elation at walking alongside a young woman."

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Dwight Garner, "The Reader as Artist, Intuitively Plumbing a Psychic Well: 'What We See When We Read,' by Peter Mendelsund," The New York Times (July 31, 2014). <Link to NYTimes.com>

03/02/2017