Perspective to me is the point of view in which a story is told. If I were to define it I would say the same thing. How it is controlled or influenced can be from a wide range of things, such as how much the author knows about something, or how the author feels about something. So I would argue that it is the author who influences and controls it. Shifting a perspective of someone is very different from changing perspective in a story. For a story, it is simple, the author merely writes from a new point of view. But shifting the perspective of an individual requires much more. Doing this takes things like a well presented argument, possibly facts, and most importantly something that the individual can relate to.
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You certainly place a great deal of power in the hands of the author. Let me ask this: does meaning exist in the encoding of the text at the author's end or your reading of it?
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