Reader-Response Criticism By: Gisselle Gutierrez, Jelissa Jose, Jenny Nguyen, and Fateemaa Sohani.

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Reader-Response Criticism By: Gisselle Gutierrez, Jelissa Jose, Jenny Nguyen, and Fateemaa Sohani

Reader-Response Criticism Definition: A form of literary criticism focused on the reader’s response to a text. -Started in US and Germany -A dialogue between the reader and the text that has its own meaning.

Continued... -Various approaches to explain the diversity of reader’s responses to literary works -Text interpretation often depends on time and/or occasion when work is read. -Readers can interpret different meanings from the text, often depending on their own life experiences

More About Reader Response ● Started in 1960s ● Still present ● Most influential 1970’s and early 1980’s -Each reader has his/her own perspective on the text, so his/her personal experiences influence the way that he/she views the text.

Founder ● Louis Rosenblatt ( ) ● Wanted to give literature aesthetic value and focus literature on more humanistic aspects. ● One of her priorities was to encourage readers to fully engage in a reading experience. ● Louise Rosenblatt -Submitted the earliest piece of work associated with reader- response: Literature as Exploration (1938).

Critics/Authors Associated ● Peter Rabinowitz - Before Reading, 1987 ● Norman Holland - The Dynamics of Literary Response, 1968 ● Elizabeth Freund - The Return of the Reader: Reader-Response Criticism, 1987 ● Wolfgang Iser - The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett, 1974 ● Stanley Fish - Is There a Text in This Class?-The Authority of Interpretive Communities, 1980

Basic Tenets of Belief Reader-Response Theory: -In literary interpretation, the reader is the most important component. -There isn’t text unless there is a reader. -Readers actively create the meaning of a literary text (subjective rather than objective). -The reader and text work together.

Types of Reader Response -Transactional Reader Response: Actual text or basically the blueprint is transformed into a poem. -Physiological Reader Response: Taking the text and interpreting the writer's feelings. -Social Reader Response: Taking the text literal and connecting to it.

Questions Reader Response Critics ask ● “How does the interaction between the text and I create meaning?” ● “Do the sounds/shapes of the words as they appear on the page remind me of anything?” ● And the most important question: “How does this writing piece relate to me?” -These questions help critics find their personal feelings in more depth -Reader response arose as a reaction to more formal criticisms.

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