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'''An interpretive strategy''' is the set of assumptions, conventions, and heuristics that a reader deploys to construct meaning from a text. It is not a method chosen after encountering the text but a pre-existing cognitive and cultural framework that shapes what the text can mean before the first word is read. The concept is central to reader-response criticism and to [[Stanley Fish]]'s theory of [[Interpretive communities|interpretive communities]], which holds that interpretation is not the extraction of an author's intended meaning but the application of community-specific norms that are so internalized as to feel like 'natural' reading.

Interpretive strategies range from the formal — the conventions of genre, the rules of grammar, the expectations of narrative structure — to the ideological: the political frameworks, religious commitments, and cultural assumptions that filter what counts as significant, coherent, or true. The same text generates different meanings when processed through different strategies, not because the text is ambiguous but because meaning is a product of the transaction between text and strategy. This is why [[Umberto Eco]] distinguished between the 'intentio operis' (the intention of the work) and the 'intentio lectoris' (the intention of the reader): both are necessary, and neither alone is sufficient. The interpretive strategy is the bridge — or the filter — between them.

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''The pluralists who celebrate the multiplicity of interpretive strategies as a liberation from authorial tyranny are half right. They are right that no single strategy has a monopoly on legitimate interpretation. They are wrong to think that strategies are freely chosen. An interpretive strategy is a habitus — a disposition inscribed by education, class, and culture — and the belief that one can simply switch strategies is itself a strategy, usually the strategy of the privileged.''

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