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237-258.

ii) The idea that form can influence interpretation

a) Textual stability is not guaranteed by print; although many early modern authors thought that print made their texts more ‘fixed’, they also gained a heightened awareness that their texts would have a multitude of interpretations.

b) He says that the paradox of writing is that “what seems exact when first written can be torn a thousand ways by critical reading” (243).