Kolodny, '"A Map for Rereading: Or, Gender and the Interpretation of Literary Texts''

How do you think a Male vs. Female reads a piece of literature?

Gender is Not the Only Factor
“…all readers, male and female alike, must be taught first to recognize the existence of a significant body of writing by women in America and, second, they must be encouraged to learn how to read it within its own unique and informing contexts of meaning and symbol. Re-visionary reading, if you will” (Kolodny 203).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2009/02/gender_is_not_the_only_factor.html

This is a fun and easy blog entry to read and respond to.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2009/02/and_the_oscar_goes_to.html

“A reader today seeking meaning in the way Harold Bloom outlines that process might note, of course, a fleeting resemblance between the upstairs chamber in Gilman…and Poe’s evocation of the dungeon chambers of Toledo; in fact, a credible argument might be made for reading ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ as Gilman’s willful and purposeful misprision of ‘The Pit and the Pendulum.’”
From Annette Kolodny’s “A Map for Rereading: Or Gender and the Interpretation of Literary Texts” in Donald Keesey’s Contexts for Criticism, page 197
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2009/02/reader-response_criticism_othe.html

"What happens if one tries to write, or to teach, or to think or even to read without the sense of a traditions?” (194 Kolodny)

Unstable Minds
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JennaMiller/2009/02/unstable-minds.html

gender issues...in literature

I think it worth noting that there exists an intimate interaction between readers and writers

Ha, it's kind of like making a baby.

For some reason, this blog and another one of mine still didn't post. The time on this blog will show that I had it completed by monday night just in case anyone is wondering. I don't know why some of blogs are connecting to the course website and some aren't. Sorry about that.

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