Reader response criticism focuses on the reader's role in interpreting texts rather than searching for a single inherent meaning. It holds that individual readers create their own meanings through personal transactions with the text based on their own experiences and backgrounds. Key aspects of reader response criticism include the horizons of expectations that readers bring, the implied reader envisioned by the author, and interpretive communities that readers belong to. However, some argue it fails to account for how texts can expand understanding and is too subjective.
Int. to Literary Theory & Literary Criticism
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Definition of literary criticism and theory.
Comparison between both the terms.
Types of theories and approaches to literary criticism.
Int. to Literary Theory & Literary Criticism
Compiled By Belachew W/Gebriel (bellachew@gmail.com)
Jimma University
CSSH
Department of English Language and Literature
Bahria Universiry Karachi Campus- Bs English, Semester 5.
Definition of literary criticism and theory.
Comparison between both the terms.
Types of theories and approaches to literary criticism.
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It is actually how would the readers response to the message of the writer. Without the writer making his work, there would not be readers. And out readers reading the writers' work, there would not be sense of having it. It is actually a vice-versa relationship where both should function according to their role.
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2. What is literary
criticism?
• Think of it as a lens through
which one views a text.
Depending on the lens one
uses, and the way in which
that lens is focused, our
attention is drawn to a
particular aspect of the text
more so than others.
• Different schools of literary
criticism offer different ways
of seeing and interpreting a
text.
3. The most important thing about a text is the
individual reader’s experience with the text.
4. When studying a text, you need to understand
what the author originally intended.
5. The meaning of a text depends on the experience
the reader brings to the text.
6. There is no right or wrong answer when it comes
to literature.
8. Historical Context
•Louise Rosenblatt's influential 1938 work Literature As
Exploration
•reaction to the formalist theories of the New Critics,
who promoted "close readings" of literature
9. Definition
• A form of criticism that
stresses the importance of
the reader's role in
interpreting texts.
Rejecting the idea that
there is a single, fixed
meaning inherent in every
literary work, this theory
holds that the individual
creates his or her own
meaning through a
"transaction" with the text
based on personal
associations.
12. In Summary
• “The Correct Reading” was traditionally the goal of literary criticism.
• Reader response criticism is a reaction to this. How one interprets a text is
subjective and is based on time, place, culture, etc.
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New Critics a practice which advocated rigid scholarly detachment in the study of texts and rejected all forms of personal interpretation by the reader. More about that later\n\n
Because all readers bring their own emotions, concerns, life experiences, and knowledge to their reading, each interpretation is subjective and unique.\n\n
Horizons of expectations a reader's "expectations" or frame of reference is based on the reader's past experience of literature and what preconceived notions about literature the reader possesses. For a work to be a classic, it needs to exceed the reader’s horizons of expectations\nImplied reader: a hypothetical reader of a text. The implied reader [according to Iser] "embodies all those predispositions necessary for a literary work to exercise its effect\nInterpretive communities: that readers within an "interpretive community" share reading strategies, values and interpretive assumptions\nTransactional analysis: meaning is produced in a transaction of a reader with a text. As an approach, then, the critic would consider "how the reader interprets the text as well as how the text produces a response in her" \n\n
