GRGR(4) kenosha kid / irving washington

Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Wed Jun 16 14:25:50 CDT 1999


Cjhurtt6 at aol.com wrote:

> yeesh. doesnt this open up that whole personal interpretation can o' worms
> though? there's a term for it..help me out lit-crit folk. the type of reading
> where ANY interpretation made by a reader no matter how private and self
> referential is valid?

Might be called an emprical reading--where too much of one's particular,
peculiar experience rather than the more general expectations within the the
language group is called into use.

                                    P.

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