![]() ![]() Books alter as they are re-read: 'Even things in a book-case change if they are alive we find ourselves wanting to meet them again we find them altered' ('The Modern Essay', 1925, E4, p. Writers must adapt to changing conditions. ![]() But readers also change books: 'Undoubtedly all writers are immensely influenced by the people who read them' ('Reading', 1919, E2, p. Books change their readers they teach you how to read them. ![]() As a pioneer of reader-response theory, Virginia Woolf was extremely interested in the two-way dialogue between readers and writers. The conversation Virginia Woolf has been having with her readers for over a hundred years now (her first publication was in 1904) has gone on changing, as conversations do. ![]()
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