The reader-response approach is a literary theory that prioritizes the reader's interpretation of a text over the author's intent or inherent meaning. It includes various sub-theories, such as affective stylistics and social reader-response theory, which focus on the reader's emotional responses, personal experiences, and shared interpretive strategies. Critique methods include analyzing emotional responses, personal connections, and the text's impact on the reader.

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Reader-Response
Approach

2. What is Reader -Response Approach

3. Is a school of literary theory that emphasizes the
reader’s role in interpreting a text. It shifts the focus
from the author’s intent or the text itself to the
readers experience and interpretation. Unlike
traditional approaches that treat meaning as
inherent in the text, reader-response critics believed
that meaning is created through the interaction
between the reader and the text. This interaction is
dynamic and subjective, varying based on the reader’s
background, experiences and perspective.
Is a school of literary theory that emphasizes the
reader’s role in interpreting a text. It shifts the focus
from the author’s intent or the text itself to the
readers experience and interpretation. Unlike
traditional approaches that treat meaning as
inherent in the text, reader-response critics believed
that meaning is created through the interaction
between the reader and the text. This interaction is
dynamic and subjective, varying based on the reader’s
background, experiences and perspective.
Reader-Response

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Types of Reader

5. Transactional Reader-Response
Theory
1.
Affective Stylistics
2.
Psychological Reader-Response
Theory
3.
Social Reader-Response Theory
4.
Subjective Reader-Response
Theory
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6. Led by Louise Rosenblatt and supported
by Wolfgang Iser, Involves a transaction
between the text’s inferred meaning and the
individual interpretation by the reader
influenced by their personal emotions and
knowledge.
Transactional
Reader-Response
Theory

7. Established by Fish, believe that a text can
only come into existence as it is read;
therefore, a text cannot have meaning
independent of the reader.
Affective
Stylistics

8. Employed by Norman Hollan, believes that
a reader’s motives heavily affect how they
read, and subsequently use this reading to
analyze the psychological response of the
reader.
Psychological
Reader-Response
Theory

9. Is Stanley Fish’s extension of his earlier
work, stating that any individual
interpretation of a text is created in an
interpretive community of minds consisting
of participants who share a specific reading
and interpretation strategy.
Social Reader-
Response Theory

10. Associated with David Bleich, looks entirely
to the reader’s response for literary meaning
as individual written responses to a text are
then compared to other individual
interpretations to find continuity of meaning.
Subjective
Reader-Response
Theory

11. Literary Piece!!
Let's Read a

12. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I
could not travel both And be one traveler, long I
stood And looked down one as far as I could To
where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair, And having
perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy
and wanted wear, Though as for that the
passing there Had worn them really about the
same,
The Road Not Taken

13. And both that morning equally lay In leaves no
step had trodden black. Oh, I marked the first
for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on
to way I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere
ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a
wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And
that has made all the difference.
The Road Not Taken

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15. Reader-Response
Approach
some ways it can be used to critique a literary piece:
- Analyzing the reader's emotional response: Consider how
the text makes you feel. What emotions does it evoke? How
does it affect your understanding of the characters, plot, or
themes?
- Exploring your personal connections: How does the text
relate to your own experiences, beliefs, or values? Do you
identify with any characters or situations?

16. - Identifying the text's impact on you: How has reading the
text changed your perspective or understanding of the
world? Does it make you think differently about anything?
- Examining the text's structure and language: Analyze how
the author uses language, imagery, and literary devices to
engage the reader. Consider how these elements contribute
to your overall experience.
- Comparing your interpretation with others: Discuss the
text with other readers and compare your interpretations.
This can help you understand different perspectives and
explore the text's multifaceted nature.

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