Thus, I thought it was merely some weepy chick flick. The first time I heard about The Fault in Our Stars was when a female coworker of mine gushed over how much she loved it and how much she cried and how much she loved crying at it. The key word that surfaces continuously throughout the dissertation is identification, and this is the term that holds the various strands of thoughts and theories together, which in the end communicate-on an affirmative note-the need for the love of reading to remain a reality as well as the improbability of its dying out.Rating: PG-13 (for language, sexuality, and some heavy themes) What this project essentially seeks to achieve is a critical analysis which attempts to justify why readers keep on reading and why people keep becoming readers regardless of new media and other distractions. What this dissertation ultimately does is to analyze critically the incredibly personal act of reading as a universal phenomenon, taking into consideration aspects of the novel which make the medium more amenable to analysis and criticism. The second is the possibility of affirmation through tragic narratives.
The first of these is the epiphanic characteristic of the novel and the representation of the epiphanic in the novel. Two important traits of the novel with regard to the impact it may have on the reader are explored in more depth. Issues such as canonicity, popular fiction, affect theory, the function of reading, and the place of literature in a reader’s life are tackled through the reading of several critics and important thinkers, and the varied thoughts are juxtaposed and explored in order to come up with potential answers to this unanswerable question. The dissertation does so with particular reference to the novel. It explores the possible reasons as to why people love to read and the impact that the experience of reading has on the reader. Simply put, this dissertation explores the reading experience.
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