Let us look at literature and fiction

Literary texts have been deemed to be metaphoric

and

 

allegorical composed of inventions rather than observed facts, this allows a wide latitude for the emotions, and the resulting speculations of the supposed genius of the authors.

As Raymond Williams has it, historically the refined sensibilities for 'reading'

functioned as a kind of 'court of appeal' in response to the perceived disclocations and vulgarity of industrial society.

The discourse of literature and fiction is inherently unstable for it (fiction) plays on the stratification of meaning,it narrates one thing in order to tell something else, it delineates itself in a language from which it continually draws effects of meaning that cannot be circumscribed or checked.