| Chapter 1: | What Happens? What Is to Be Done? A Paean to Bricolage |
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The goal (since it is doubtless impossible to do without one) as it has been in the account of the act of reading treated from the beginning of this chapter, is to set preconceptions aside insofar as that can be managed and to resist the impulse to close fast on precocious judgement. To this end, the six strategies or angles of approach discussed in the next chapter are proposed as means of deflecting textual interpretations which tend to define a reader’s interest by legislating the terms of his reading.