Stories and Interpretations
24th January 2006
My wife is taking classes at the local community college. This is her third attempt to complete her college education begun over twenty years ago. One of the classes she is taking is Speech Communications.
She is working on a homework assignment right now and it is about literary interpretation. She gave a reading of literary piece of her choice, and she chose to read the opening paragraph from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. She got full marks for it!
Now she is asked to write a paragraph describing her experience of interpretation of literature and in doing that exercise, we had a lively discussion regarding what it was like for her to interprete the piece she had chosen, and about interpreting literature itself as an experience.
We talked about how it was like touring, and visiting a whole new city or country. There is the problem of understanding the differences in culture, the social dynamics of the local society, and there is also the experience of seeing, hearing, tasting, observing and perceiving through the tour guide as well as the first hand experiences from one’s own perspective. Read the rest of this entry »
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