Stanley Fish

A New Idea About Reading

    "There is no right way (formula) to read the text. " I would like Fish's idea because it makes sense for me to think actively while I am reading, rather than just collecting the stuffs from a text. For me, I think an active reading make the interaction between the author and the readers, this way could be as giving a life to a literary work. At same time, Fish's theories prove the necessity of literary criticism, which an extraordinary process on modern criticism.

    Stanley Fish gives the readers the infinite space to absorb the information from the literary works. He breaks the limitation from the convention view of the relationship between the audience and the book. If his view of "The text doesn't exist, it's only from the reader, and the reader makes the text" is true, it will undoubtedly give a push to the readers to read, to think, and create positively.
    His theory also emphasizes on the importance of reading. Reading is a process requires optional ideas. Without reading, a book would lose the meaning of its existence. While the author takes the role who introduce a group of informations to the reader, the reader would work on collecting those informations and create one's own thought about it. Yet the produce from reading a text varies among the people. Therefore, there is no a certain way to read, and the text is made by the readers.