Chris Pratt & Defining Our Terms
In our present time, it’s no use denying the importance of language and terms. Within literary theory is a view that the meaning of a text comes primarily from the reader and not the author. While I won’t deny that an audience plays a role in interpreting and applying a text, I think the author plays the key role in defining what the text means. If this was not the case, then we or those around us (like politicians) wouldn’t spend so much time arguing what we said was not wha