Reading works of literature force o

Reading works of literature force on us an exercise of fidelity and respect, albeit within a certain freedom of interpretation. There is a dangerous critical heresy, typical of our time, according to which we can do anything we like with a work of literature, reading into it whatever our most uncontrolled impulses dictate to us. This is not true. Literary worjs encourage freedom of interpretation, because they offer us a discourse that has many layers of reading and place before us the ambiguities of language and of real life. But in order to play this game which allows every generations to read literary in a different way, we must be moved by s pround respect for what I have called elsewhere the intention of the text.
On the hand the world seems to be a “closed book, allowing of only one reading, If example, there is a law governing planetary gravitation, then it is either the right one or the wrong one. Compared with that, the universe of a book seems to us to be an open universe. But let us try to approach a narrative work with common sense and compare the assumptions we can make about it with those we can make about the world. As far as the world is concerned, we find the laws of universal gravitation are those established by Newton, or that it is true that Napoleon died on Saint Helena on 5 May 1821. And yet, if we keep an open mind. We will always be prepared to revise our convictions the day science formulates the great laws of the cosmos differently, or a historian discovers unpublished document proving that Napoleon died on a Bonapartist ship as he attempted to escape. On the other hand, as far as` the world of books is concerned, propositions like “Sherlock Holmes was a bachelor,” “Little Red Riding-Hood is eaten by the wolf and then freed by the woodcutter,” Anna Karenina commits suicide” will remain true for eternity, and no one will ever be able to refute them. There are people who deny that Jesus was the son of God, others who doubt his historical existence, others who claim he is the Way, the Truth, and Life, and still others who belive that the Messiah is yet to come, and however we might think about such questions, we treat these opinions with respect. But there is little respect for those who claim that Hamlet married Ophelia, or that Superman is not Clark Kent.
Literary texts explicitly provide us with much that we will never cast doubt on, but also, unlike the real world, they flag with supreme authority what we are to take as important in them, and what we must not take as a point of departure for freewheeling interpretations.

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Membaca karya sastra memaksa kita latihan kesetiaan dan hormat, meskipun dalam kebebasan tertentu untuk interpretasi. Ada bidaah kritis berbahaya, khas dari waktu kita, yang kita bisa melakukan apapun yang kita suka dengan karya sastra, membaca ke dalamnya apa pun impuls kami paling tidak terkendali mendikte kepada kami. Hal ini tidak benar. Sastra worjs mendorong kebebasan interpretasi, karena mereka menawarkan kita sebuah wacana yang memiliki banyak lapisan membaca dan tempat sebelum kita ambiguitas bahasa dan kehidupan nyata. Tapi untuk memainkan permainan ini yang memungkinkan setiap generasi untuk membaca sastra dengan cara yang berbeda, kami harus pindah s pround rasa hormat untuk apa saya sebut di tempat lain maksud teks. On the hand the world seems to be a “closed book, allowing of only one reading, If example, there is a law governing planetary gravitation, then it is either the right one or the wrong one. Compared with that, the universe of a book seems to us to be an open universe. But let us try to approach a narrative work with common sense and compare the assumptions we can make about it with those we can make about the world. As far as the world is concerned, we find the laws of universal gravitation are those established by Newton, or that it is true that Napoleon died on Saint Helena on 5 May 1821. And yet, if we keep an open mind. We will always be prepared to revise our convictions the day science formulates the great laws of the cosmos differently, or a historian discovers unpublished document proving that Napoleon died on a Bonapartist ship as he attempted to escape. On the other hand, as far as` the world of books is concerned, propositions like “Sherlock Holmes was a bachelor,” “Little Red Riding-Hood is eaten by the wolf and then freed by the woodcutter,” Anna Karenina commits suicide” will remain true for eternity, and no one will ever be able to refute them. There are people who deny that Jesus was the son of God, others who doubt his historical existence, others who claim he is the Way, the Truth, and Life, and still others who belive that the Messiah is yet to come, and however we might think about such questions, we treat these opinions with respect. But there is little respect for those who claim that Hamlet married Ophelia, or that Superman is not Clark Kent. Literary texts explicitly provide us with much that we will never cast doubt on, but also, unlike the real world, they flag with supreme authority what we are to take as important in them, and what we must not take as a point of departure for freewheeling interpretations.