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Originally Posted by Lalwendė
One of the big drawbacks of course of Reader Response is that we can call a text anything we like if we can find a tiny bit of evidence to support it, even if that evidence is simply our 'feelings' in response to the text.
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Ah, but some readings are better than others. In my literary analysis class last year, my professor gave us an interpretation of
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Frost. He had read it as in support of bestiality--"My little horse must think it queer/to stop without a farmhouse near." You could find evidence for that, certainly, but that doesn't make it a right reading, or even a good reading. How do you determine a "right" or "good" reading? That's what's debatable...
