Reading Reflection

When I first started this semester I felt and truly believed the actual text itself is has much more importance than the author’s intentions. I also felt the reader’s response had very little value. I went to school in California. My last English teacher had put a great emphasis on the text itself. As I was taught the words themselves hold all the power. I felt the author’s intentions were merely not important. It was okay if a reader misconstrued what the author had intended for his or her audience. I felt the reader and audience of the text were able portray and misrepresent the text to their liking. Take a symbolic interpretation of what they wanted the text to assume to arouse there literary mind. I feel each published writing is commands

I feel it is very important to properly understand if each particular reading is valid. I truly feel each writing represents a paradox. We must be excellent readers and have high expectations for each text. To read well is to read accurately and faithfully. After the semester has finished I feel the authors intentions are the most important. To identify and analyze what the intent was will make the reading valid. I also feel the reader’s response is just as apparent and important. The reader response I think is only valid and legit. If he or she is responding to the authors true intentions. There is no wrong or write or answer. A feeling or emotion caused by interpreting the author’s intentions is a valid critique. You can have a positive or negative comment to say, each response is valid. Question of which reading of a text is the most accurate is itself a question of reading! The readers and the readings are deeply connected to interpretations. I think critics are mocking certain readings, and dissecting the text and questioning the author’s intent. Every published work faces a readers-response criticism. New criticism involved in a way that emphasized

I have learned from Dr. White that the meaning of text is created through the process of reading. I honestly believe the process of reading and the role of the reader are tied and deeply connected. Every reader reads according to the conventions of his or her interpretive community. We all come from different background and upbringings. Your environment and what you have been taught dictate how translate a text. Your economic social status and education can influence your interpreting of a text. How a reader has been educated regarding aspects to their socio-historical context. Judith Fetterley argued some women may have been immasculated they have been traditionally been taught to read as a man. Critics concerned with questions of race and ethnicity colonization, ethnic difference, racial oppression, discrimination. Imperialism and orientalism were important factors regarding this isse.. Henry Louis gates commented on black literary criticism. He had developed certain reading techniques as interpretation of survival. I thought that was quite