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Kermode remarks about underreading:
all writers are tied to this marketplace. As a consequence, authors ... tend to ‘ “foreground” sequence and message’ – at the expense, of course, of ‘backgrounding’ large parts of their novels that consequently go virtually unread, ‘resisting all but abnormally attentive scrutiny...most readers ‘underread’ and are encouraged in this practice by authors...
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all writers are tied to this marketplace. As a consequence, authors ... tend to ‘ “foreground” sequence and message’ – at the expense, of course, of ‘backgrounding’ large parts of their novels that consequently go virtually unread, ‘resisting all but abnormally attentive scrutiny...most readers ‘underread’ and are encouraged in this practice by authors...
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