martes, 31 de marzo de 2009

What is literature?


“ no text provides self-contained meaning; literary texts do not exist independently of readers‘ interpretations. A text …is not finished until it is read and interpreted....religious, cultural and social values affect readings” (Kennedy and Gioia, 2005)

If I think about this definition, I would like to say that one of the most important things when you are reading a text is your own interpretation about it. When you read something, you will always have a different interpretation which is going to be different from others´ definition. Each person has different point of view and different opinions and that depends on the context, such as the political or the social context. Is the person who is going to decode the message given from the text, so for that reason it is really important the interpretation from the reader. One thing is the way the writer uses to write a text and another different thing is the way the reader uses to interpret the text and with what he/she makes a relation according to the interpretation.