May 06, 2006
by Soundboy on May 06, 2006For an objective interpretation allows for a classroom of students to build on the criticism of a text. Instead of arguing about what exactly it means they instead will use criticism for what it was it was meant to be: a critique of the culture. Subjective interpretation of a text puts the reader at the center of the text. It demands intellectual effort and analysis, but little else. For one wonders if a person read Morrison, he or she might simply make their interpretation and then never actually analyze and potentially change their racial stereotypes. For that person might even deny that racial stereotypes exist under a subjective interpretation. That would be a tragedy. For that would make literature should be a cause and effect type of discourse. In that case it would have no effect.
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