Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Reader's Response Criticism

The relationship between interpretation and text is thus reversed: interpretive strategies are not put into execution after reading; they are the shape of reading and because they are the shape of reading, they give texts their shape, making them rather than, as is usually assumed, arising from them.

In Grant Osborne, The Hermeneutical Spiral (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2006), 479.

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