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Direct linkLeggo, Carl – English in Australia, 2011
What is the hold of literature on a reader's imagination, on my imagination? I remember many hours spent with books in a kind of romantic entanglement, and heartful obsession, and joyful reverie. I certainly remember being lost with words, lost in enthusiastic abandonment. I loved the sounds of words, and the images they conjured, and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Motivation, Reader Response
