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If, as Stanley Fish Argues, an Individual Reader Interprets a Text

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If, as Stanley Fish argues, an individual reader interprets a text and thereby gives it meaning, then there are an infinite number of potential meanings for any given text. Why, then, do so many people interpret things in the same ways?


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Pleasure

A feeling of happiness, satisfaction, or enjoyment derived from sensory experiences or emotional encounters.

Bipolar Disorder

A mental health condition characterized by extreme mood swings that include emotional highs (mania or hypomania) and lows (depression).

Manic Episode

A period of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels, often seen in bipolar disorder.

Unipolar Episode

A period characterized by a severe mood that is consistently in one emotional state (usually depression), without episodes of mania.

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