Similarly when we read a text, we are participating in social or cultural meaning, so response to a piece of literary work is not merely an individual thing, but is part of culture and history.

同样，当我们阅读文本时，我们也在参与社会或文化意义，因此对一篇文学作品的回应不仅仅是一个个体的东西，而是文化和历史的一部分。