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appropriation: The tendency of readers to interpret texts according to their cultural presuppositions, regardless of those of the author-and even if the author wrote the work from a different cultural or ideological perspective (Bedford 27).
Good word. Works for me on so many levels. To be a good critic I guess you would need to not do this, or else you wouldn't just be a bad critic, but also a bad reader.
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