criticism go further to say that the reader creates the meaning of the text. Others, like Edgar V. McKnight, hold that meaning is produced by the mutual interaction between the text and reader.8 According to this view, the text engages the reader as the reader engages the text. Meaning, then, is an invention by the reader in collaboration with the text rather than the intention of the author. The reader is constrained by the text, but is not divested of interests and presuppositions. The text is
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