Moore

Question 1

Implied reader

Answer 1

the reader implied by the text itself, who is informed by the text and bound to the plot of the narrative.

Question 2

Fisher view on the text

Answer 2

Any text is capable of a endless number of possible meanings.

There is no objective meaning in a text.

Question 3

According to Fish, what are interpretive communities?

Answer 3

Interpretive communities are “made up of those who share interpretive strategies not for reading (in the conventional sense) but for writing texts, for constituting their properties.”

Question 4

How does Fish’s theory avoid advocating anarchy?

Answer 4

He proposes that it is the interpretive community that guides and limits the extraction of meaning from the text through accepted interpretive strategies

Question 5

Compare Iser’s and Fish’s views of the text using the analogy of the stars in the sky

Answer 5

Iser’s view is that the stars in the text are just as fixed as the stars in the sky, but that two people gazing at the stars may see different images.

Fish’s view is that the stars in the text are not fixed; they just as variable as the lines that join them

Question 6

How does Derrida describe postmodernist interpretation of the text?

Answer 6

As play. It is not turned toward the origin of the text.

Question 7

How does Derrida describe classical interpretation?

Answer 7

As deciphering (or dreaming of deciphering) a truth or origin which escapes play and the order of the sign.

Also calls it ‘exiled speech’

Question 8

What does Derrida advocate?

Answer 8

Non-centered interpretation

The joyous affirmation of the play of the world and of the innocence of becoming

The affirmation of a world of signs without fault, without truth, and without origin which is offered to an active interpretation.