Literary text and its implications in teaching languages

To read and interpret a literary text means to "enter" one complex set of relations. These relations ripple endlessly as a connection between words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, even as a connection between texts, hence a text cannot be separate or partial in that set of textual relations. It is an act of exchange of meanings between the author and the reader (the student). Each text is a world for itself, so it does not allow repeatability. To read means to weave one’s own text between lines and to "migrate" it to the margins. And it is here that its meanings arise from