Eagleton, Terry - How to Read Literature
I n t e r p r e t a t i o n 1 3 1 An alternative version of the poem reads ‘But none for the little boy who lives down the lane’ ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 1 3 2 summer’s day?’ is flexible enough to be voiced in a whole variety of ways. An actor ...
I n t e r p r e t a t i o n 1 3 3 deference. Few works could be more profoundly political. ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’ makes Marx’s Ca ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 1 3 4 way. Almost certainly not. Even so, you can choose to interpret a piece of writing i ...
I n t e r p r e t a t i o n 1 3 5 Authors may have long forgotten what they intended a poem or story to mean. In any case, works ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 1 3 6 There are certain obvious ways in which the idea of literature as self- expression i ...
I n t e r p r e t a t i o n 1 3 7 to peer behind a poem to see whether the poet really felt as he says he did, unless he is decl ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 1 3 8 passionately or not. It would be kinder to get me to a doctor than to a registry off ...
I n t e r p r e t a t i o n 1 3 9 question ‘How old are you?’ It is no answer at all. There seems to be no connection between th ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 1 4 0 its narrator is psychotic, but this is a reasonable implication to read into it. We ...
I n t e r p r e t a t i o n 1 4 1 evidence to support it. This is why the reading seems fanciful and far- fetched. It is possibl ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 1 4 2 that what it means to them is not what it may have meant a few centuries ago. But th ...
I n t e r p r e t a t i o n 1 4 3 it might be that you were invited to make your own sense of it provided that the sense was log ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 1 4 4 preoccupations of our time, other than in the sense that any act of reading is. It a ...
I n t e r p r e t a t i o n 1 4 5 Once again, this is not to suggest that anything goes. There may be some conceivable situation ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 1 4 6 arguing over, otherwise we could not call what they were doing conflicting. You and ...
I n t e r p r e t a t i o n 1 4 7 There is no single correct interpretation of ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’, or for that matter of any ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 1 4 8 in a lunatic asylum; and that she is bringing her child or children with her. Perhap ...
I n t e r p r e t a t i o n 1 4 9 Swift’s stance to his readers as ‘intimate but unfriendly’. There is a touch of good- humoured ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 1 5 0 sometimes unavoidable, so there follows a brief summary of Dickens’s novel. Pip, the ...
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