[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

I'm not arguing against the 'experience of the reader', but something which makes me not want to side wholly with it is that the reader can quite easily misinterpret the text.

To state that a text can be misinterpreted is to assume that there is a correct interpretation. But who decides what the correct interpretation is? What right has anyone to deny a genuinely held interpretation of a text simply because they consider it to be incorrect?