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In literature the relation between the reader and the writer is like that of self and other. In a literate group or society, readers are writings and writers, readers. Each is other to himself or herself, or, in other terms, each person is both self and other. Writer and reader are each to his or her own and together create a drama of meaning, a tension within one and the other and between them. These aesthetics also have an ethical dimension. Mythology and ideology, story and argument vie and overlap. The literary field-that is, literature and its theory and commentary-represents and examines the familiar and the strange.
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Hart, J. (2015). The Literary And The Other. In: The Poetics of Otherness. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137477453_3
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