Abstract

Abstract The visual images produced mentally by readers have been more or less ignored by contemporary literary scholars and theorists, even in their studies of the reader's interactions with the text. In many cases, they regard these readerly images as mental fluff, inconsequential will-o'-the wisps that drift in and out of consciousness. Such individuals, whether they practice psychoanalytic, socio-cultural, deconstructionist, or rhetorical modes of criticism, undervalue the image because they attend exclusively to the linguistic dimension of readers and texts. They are in effect blinded by the linguistic elements of sound, meaning, and graphic inscription.

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