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Reader response
Reader response theory proposes that readers play an active role in constructing meaning from a text. It arose in response to New Criticism's focus on the text alone and emphasizes that readers use their own background and experiences to interpret what is missing or ambiguous in a text. Key figures who developed reader response theory include Stanley Fish, Louise Rosenblatt, and Wolfgang Iser. They explored how readers form hypotheses, make connections, and fill in gaps as they read to create meaning.
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- 2. List of Theories(For NET) Formalism/ New Criticism Structuralism Post structuralism / Deconstructionism Modernism/ Post modernism Post Colonialism
- 3. List of Theories(For NET) Feminism New Historicism Psychoanalytic Reader Response Marxism
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- 6. POST STRUCTURALISM Thereis no centre There are multiple meanings There is No fixed meaning Fredrich Nietche
- 7. Features Against New criticism ReaderCan’t be ommited Reader must be active Reader creates meanings
- 8. Who is aReader? “Death of the author is the birth of Reader” Always moves back and forth as reader is synthesizing infos correcting things Create meaning based on cultural baground Readers feeling Create meaning based on cultural baground
- 9. Key Figures Stanleyfish Louise Rosanblatt Wolfgang Iser Normand Holland Roland Batheres David bleich
- 10. TEXT IS DEAD Text does not exist until some one reads.. reader givers life to the text “Heresy of paraphrase” Gaps Meaning as an Event Constantly they make hypothesis while reading draw connections, fill gapes, erase things.
- 11. Blood-stained clothesthrown in the trash Shivering hands, face abash The scarlet knife on the floor Windows shut, locked doors. Sirens in the neighbourhood Oh ! This can't be good. Afraid I sat, by the corner of the room Waiting for the approaching doom In that fit of anger, I had stabbed her to death "I still love you" she said in her last breath
- 12. I hadjust closed my eyes to relax When someone tapped me on my back That's when I woke up with a scream And realised it was all just a dream So, I decided to go back to sleep Ignoring the once white shirt in the trash, smiling at me.
- 13. Key Concepts Idealreader (Implied Reader) – Iser - sahRdaya Actual reader Competent reader – culler Narratee Affect Effect Dialogic Horizans of expectations
- 14. Intertexuality Dialogic Polyphony Ambiguity Transaction – Blatt Determinate Indeterminate Gaps (leerstellen) Text proposes; reader disposes.
- 15. A readermakes a poem as he reads – louise rosenblatt Text controls reader – Iser Affective Stylistics Interpretive Community All the readings are misreading – Bloom Michael Riffaterre - a "superreader"
- 16. Individualists Experimentalists UNIFORMISTS Reception Theory – Hans Robert Jass Start – Stop – extrapolate Efferent vs aesthetic Intertexuality
- 17. Louise Rosenblattpublishes Literature as Exploration Stanley Fish publishes Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost Norman N. Holland publishes The Nature of Literary Response: 5 Readers Reading Wolfgang Iser publishes The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response : David Bleich publishes Subjective Criticism Stanley Fish publishes Is There a Text in this Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities