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Caxton Reading Series: "Fiction, Reality, and the Readers in Between" by Peter Rabinowitz

January 16 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Alumni Room, Old Main

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Fiction is an activity we perform—not a quality in the text but a willed state of mind in the reader. And while fiction is usually considered separate from reality, it is always rubbing up against the actual world. In fact, fiction depends on reality. Using examples ranging from Proust to Paddington Bear, Rabinowitz argues that this interaction evokes the multiple perspectives that create the “depth” we experience when reading.