READING THE TEXT

If once a text is labelled under any category or genre, people tend to read the book only with the same approach for quite a long duration of time. Any other kind of approach to that text is considered as an act of desanctifying that particular work. Why such narrow point of view exist among people? For instance, detective fictions are easily dismissed as trivial. In the modern world the distinction between high culture and popular culture is dissolving in academic saucepans, but still an author is judged whether he belong to the literary pantheon or restricted to the mystery of detective fiction or pulps. For an instance, why not William Faulkner's Absalom,Absalom! (labelled as classical work) be read as a detective fiction? Reading a text from different perspective will not degrade the text by any means instead it shows the richness of classic and its innate flexibility which allows for a different reading.As Roland Barthes stated, the author is one who authorizes the text.In that way, readers play the role of an author. So, they have the complete independence to approach a text with whatever mode they like. Reading the text from a different perspective and trying to place the text in a different framework is highly an interesting process which demands both a creative mind and knowledge.