1. Camilla Tenova Katayane | Christian Paskah |
Cipta Dewi Larasati | Manda Ajie Safitri
Readers’ Response Theory
(Reception Theory)
Literary Theory
2. What’s in this PowerPoint?
• What is Readers’ Response?
• The history of Readers’ Response
• The concept
3. To start with…
• Go to your presentation group.
• Listen to this song.
• After you listen to this song, please discuss:
– What is the theme of this song? Tell your interpretation of the
song.
• Be ready to present this in front of the class.
4. So, you’ve done the Readers’ Response Theory!
• Do you still need us anymore?
6. So, this is it.
• Readers’ Response Theory (or you can say it as Reception
Theory) is a theory that allows INFERENCES and READERS’
POINT OF VIEWin understanding a literary work.
• These things will affect your interpretation:
– Background knowledge
– Time
– Emotion
7. How to use Readers’ Response Theory? (discussion)
• You can go to your group and discuss these questions according
to the song you’ve heard.
– What do you feel about the song?
– How does the song agree or disagree with your point of view?
– How well does the song address things that you personally care about
and consider important in the world? Cite specific lines from the song.
– Do you connect this song with something that you remember? Cite lines
from the song and explain the connection.
– What is your overall reaction to the song?
8. How to use Readers’ Response Theory?
• Be ACTIVE(it’s a must!) because you give meaning to the work.
• You have to READ and CONTEMPLATE the content of the literary
work (you will involve your emotion through this. Trust us!)
• After you read and contemplate the literary work, you have to
state your perspective towards the literary work.
10. Here is the story behind this Reception Theory.
• In 1930, students and authors are disenchanted due to the
‘death’ of the readers in interpreting the literary work.
• In 1938, Louise Rosenblatt thought that criticism should
involve “personal sense of literature” and your “spontaneous
and honest reaction”.
11. People behind this theory are…(1)
• Edmund Husserl
• He is well-known for his
theory: ‘phenomenon’.
• Phenomenon: appearances of
things, or things as they
appear in our experience, or
the ways we experience things,
thus the meanings things have
in our experience
12. • Hans Robert Jauss
• He is well-known for his theory:
horizon of expectation.
• Horizon of expectation: expectation
about literary work brought by the
reader based on experience,
background knowledge, and
experience.
People behind this theory are…(2)
13. • Wolfgang Iser
• He is well-known for ‘the affective
structure of the text’.
• …in considering a literary work,
one must take into account not
only the actual text but also the
actions inolved in responding to
that text.
• …reading is an active and creative
process, it is reading which brings
the text to life, which unfold its
inherently character.
People behind this theory are…(3)
14. • Martin Heidegger
• His theory is called ‘existential
time’.
• …time is something unique to
particular person’s consciousness;
a person’s life, her traversing of the
journey between birth and death, is
most fundamentally constituted by
time.
People behind this theory are…(4)
15. • Stanley Fish
• …meaning is not somehow
contained in the text but is
created within the readers’
experience.
People behind this theory are…(5)