LITERATURE

In literary texts, it's important to consider the LAY-OUT, that is the way words look on the page. The language of literature is different to everyday's language, it is arranged in different ways, it hasn't a message in particular. Poems have got an ideal reader: there are empirical readers, intelligent readers and naive readers, but the only that can read literary texts are the EMPIRICAL ones. Literature is the way language is organized into possible meanings, but what is a classical work?

A classical work is the peculiar use of language that allows whatever reader of whatever time of whatever space to find always new meanings in the same work. A classical always regenerate itself.

Poetry is written to be read, drama is written to be performed. When you read a text, you must make an analysis: every reader can make a denotative analysis, but an empirical reader must READ BETWEEN THE LINES.

The title is useful to make predictions about the possible content of the text: there's nothing outside the text, it is only interpretation. The role of the reader is an active, dynamic one, in that it contributes to make the meaning of the text. In a literary text there are as many meanings as readers, provided that the reader can support his interpretation on the text.