Readerly questions are raised when readers are explicitly and programmatically brought into the process of interpreting texts. Traditionally, the reader and readerly interest and identities have been screened out when we have set about interpreting texts, and we have set our sights on attaining an interpretation that shouldbe as ""objective "" as possible. Things are rather different now. Not only is quest for objective interpretation seen as chiaera, but the rewards of unabashed ""readerly"" interpretations that foreground the process of reading and the context of the reader have now been sho