2026-10-16 02:19 UTC
In the context of they sorts of literary analysis done at the high school or early university level, there does end up being a right and a wrong. Maybe that’s what turned me off to that sort of discussion: the downplaying of my experience with a work in favor of the “right” interpretation.
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@inconsistent_octopus@lemmy.world 2026-10-16 03:21
This is a common low-level approach to literature, but I think it’s a really stupid and bad approach. In some ways, it’s a response to the political demand to quantify and standardize education. I think it turns many people away from reading.