against the text, but also standing over against one’s critical peers, in a most decisive manner. We could call the critic pole of the critic/reader continuum the “objectifying” pole. What is objectified by the reader-oriented critic, however, is not the traditional text object, but the experience of reading within a tradition of criticism. This could also be called the “sociological” or “ideological” pole, for we objectify our reading experience according to the critical presuppositions (or ideology)