"Can someone PLEASE help me out with the dominant, alternate and resistant reading of robert frosts poem "out. out..". i am really stuggling with this assignment and it would be a great help if someone could assist me with this. thank you so much if you do, otherwise, thanks anyways.
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Kristie

First we need to know how your teacher, or text defines those terms.

Les

Looks like those Australian schools are making it up as they go along again:

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"Dominant readings: those which the text may be positioning the reader to accept or favour,or which embody the dominant values and beliefs in a culture.

Alternative readings: those which are less common but are deemed acceptable because they do not challenge the dominant reading.

Resistant readings: those which move beyond the dominant cultural beliefs to challenge prevailing views."

I will refrain from copying the rest of their gobbledygook, as it was fairly incomprehensible and I was no more informed after having read it than I was before doing so.

Sounds like a spinoff of Hegel's concepts of thesis, antithesis and synthesis, no?

Too complicated for me, but here is some Google stuff:

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And here is a good Aussie site with discussion forums and a Search engine if you want to follow up with others who may be in the same spot.

[www.boredofstudies.org]

And I don't see how any of those apply to 'Out, Out'- it lends itself to a pretty straightforward reading. Now if they were looking at The Road Not Taken..........

pam