The Virtue of Misreadings: Interpreting “The Man in the Well”

College English Sep 2010

The Virtue of Misreadings: Interpreting “The Man in the Well”

Gary Weissman

Abstract

Through an account of how his own students analyzed Ira Sher’s short story “The Man in the Well,” the author calls for teachers of literature to value and attend to their classes’ misreadings rather than replace them with corrective interpretations. He argues that probing these misreadings enables one to see the limits imposed by any single correct understanding and to glimpse the richness of the potential text.

Journal: College English
Published: 2010-09-01
DOI: 10.58680/ce201011651
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multilingual writers

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