Reader-Response Criticism & An Eskimo "A Rose for Emily"

"Reader-response criticism attempts to describe what happens in the reader's mind while interpreting a text." (Pg.2044)

Along with the given explaination above and the rest of the explanation in the text, I interperated reader-response criticism to be a method of explaining the variations in the reader's responses to written works. As it is impossible for every individual to read a text and comprehend it in the exact same ways, reader-response criticism analyzes and explains the analyzations of the readers. In this manner, the reasons why each reader deplicted and felt was indicated by the works to be can be explained.

I found the An Eskimo "A Rose for Emily" text to be rather confusing to follow even through a second and third read. As Eskimo reading is defined by Holland in the text as unacceptable because it lacks the proper stratigies for properly analyzing the text by limiing the interpretations that the text's words can provide. At first I believed that the explaination would be followed by a written criticism response. However, it was instead followed by the contraditions evolution of the Eskimo strategy. The text described the Eskimo strategy as becoming "the process of dislodging or expanding interperative strategies." I felt that the text was an article on the history and evolution of the Eskimo strategy that was once claimed to be unethical.

Either of the two readings, READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM and An Eskimo "A Rose for Emily", focus on the methods of interperative strategies of the reader's mind. the Eskimo strategy in the latter being just one form of the various methods of reader-response criticism mentioned in the first.