Comment by emit_time
I was forced to read this in freshman English… it was awful. Realized you could make it say whatever you want and used that for the essay I wrote
I was forced to read this in freshman English… it was awful. Realized you could make it say whatever you want and used that for the essay I wrote
> [T]eachers should only be teaching works of literature that have one and only one objectively correct interpretation, like the Bible.
That's a non-sequitur. What they are saying is that: "if a text can mean anything, then by definition it means nothing."
Not coincidentally, this nothingness is part of the postmodernist project of "destabilizing meaning" which is in direct opposition to, as a rejection of, the progress of technology and science, which instead seeks to discover empirically what things are and what the truth is.
You're right, English teachers should only be teaching works of literature that have one and only one objectively correct interpretation, like the Bible.