Althusser goes further in his analysis to assert that this intricate relationship between the governor and the governed causes the latter to unconsciously accept predetermined identities of subjugation through a given ideology propagated by the state. ... This stresses the ability of the fable as a literary genre to implicitly point to controversial concerns, which assigns the book its immortality....

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According to Richard Sharpe (2012) "Reception theory is a version of reader-response literary theory that emphasizes the reader's reception of a literary text" and is broken down into three types "Preferred, negotiated and oppositional reading". ...

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