Tag: the reader

• Meaning-making in Literature and Life: an Introduction to Existentialism by Elizabeth Ruth Deyro

  In literature, it is the reader who gives meaning to a text. The process of creating this meaning is in the dialogue between the reader and the text itself. Giving it meaning is their way of understanding it. We should recognize that the text, once birthed, becomes a separate entity apart from its writer, much…

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  March 30, 2018

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