Guest Editor’s Introduction On Reading TodayA Series of Theoretical Reflections

Presented in this section is a special forum that offers fresh philosophical and theoretical perspectives on various forms and levels of reading practices today.

Kyoo Lee’s stimulating lead essay,“A Close-up:On U,the Reader InOutside,” with a spirited response by Marjorie Perloff,“Microreading/Microwriting,” these innovative interventions from two of the most original theorists today set off the conversation.

Two other,forthcoming essays in the next issue respond to Lee’s paradigm-shifting prompt,and we plan to continue the series with invited contributions tothe conversation that would emerge through these two opening “scenes” of meta-reading.

We hope that the dialogic platform initiated here will generate some dynamic discussions and innovative perspectives on this timeless art of textual encountering.