Texts travel selectively, carrying only what serves the receiving culture.

Evidence

When a text travels from one culture to another, some parts of it travel and other parts do not. The parts that travel are usually the parts that fit the receiving culture’s needs. The parts that do not travel are usually the parts that contradict the receiving culture’s instincts. — , The Rod and the Child, 469

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sets up the concept of selective reception that the author flags as the season’s recurring analytic device.
• SEED: This ‘selective reception’ lens could structure an essay about how any canonical author’s work gets weaponized by later readers.
• XREF: connects to: Language can distort as well as transmit human culture

Broader Connections

• Language can distort as well as transmit human culture #corroborates (0.70)