User:Toby Decker

How a person reads a text is largely influenced by the text's appearance, as well as the medium by which the text is consumed.  Contemporary readers of texts like The Waste Land may be introduced to a new reading of Eliot's poem depending upon which portion is considered for visual interpretation.  Bornstein writes in "How to Read a Page" that "...the literary work might be said to exist not in any one version, but in all the versions put together.  In reading a particular page we would want to know of the other versions of that page and the first step in reading would then be to discover what pages exist with claims on our attention."  By using various mediums or versions of texts to analyze literature, readers may offer new perspectives to the ongoing challenge of interpreting literature.  To a large degree, humans internalize information based on visual and tactile experiences.  Therefore, it is important to regard each piece of a sample of art before claiming to know the integral sophistication of the work in question.