Abstract:<b>1. Introduction: </b><div>What Does it Mean to Read?
When you read do you cross, uncross, and recross your legs? Do you pull at your hair or
grind your teeth? Do you rest your book on different surfaces? Do you slowly annihilate your
body in any way, shape or form? In other words, when you read do you wrestle with the text in
front of you? If so, congratulations! You’re a student of something called ‘literature’. But what is
literature? How is its weight felt in the Western world today? Pe… Show more
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