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Reader-response criticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader (or "audience") and his or her experience of a literary work, in contrast to other schools and theories that focus ...
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The systematic examination of the aspects of the text that arouse, shape, and guide a reader's response. According to reader-response criticism, the reader is a producer rather than a consumer of meanings.
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the question of the extent to which interpretation is a public act, conditioned by the particular material and cultural circumstances of the reader, vs the extent to which reading is a private act governed by a response to the relatively independent codes of the text,
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One advantage of careful reading with some knowledge of historical context is that this strategy allows us to establish some understandings about the author's mentality, understandings that have a name in "Reader Response Theory": the horizon of expectations.
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Reader-Response Criticism ... Reader-Response Criticism in the 20th Century: ... Types of Reader-Response Critics...
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How to Write a Reaction Paper or Reader Response. ... [from the ENGL 0310 Syllabus] "A reader response asks the reader [you] to examine, explain and defend her/his personal reaction to a reading. You will be asked to explore why you like or dislike the reading, explain whether you agree or disagree with the author,
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Brief and Straightforward Guide: What is Reader Response Criticism? ... Reader response criticism is a literary critical theory, promoted and developed by a variety of literary theorists and critics. Depending on the person advancing the concept, the theory may take on any number of nuanced meanings.
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