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Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader (or "audience") and his or her experience of a literary work, in contrast to other schools and theories that focus attention primarily on the author or the content and form of the work.
Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader (or "audience") and his or her experience of a literary work, in contrast to other schools and theories that focus attention primarily on the author or the content and form of the work.
Although literary theory has long paid some attention to the reader's role in creating the meaning and experience of a literary work, modern reader-response criticism began in the 1960s and '70s, particularly in America and Germany, in work by Norman Holland, Stanley Fish, Wolfgang Iser, Hans-Robert Jauss, Roland Barthes, and others. Important predecessors were I. A. Richards, who in 1929 analyzed a group of Cambridge undergraduates' misreadings; Louise Rosenblatt, who, in Literature as Exploration (1938), argued that it is important for the teacher to avoid imposing any "preconceived notions about the proper way to react to any work"; and C. S. Lewis in An Experiment in Criticism (1961).
Reader-response theory recognizes the reader as an active agent who imparts "real existence" to the work and completes its meaning through interpretation. Reader-response criticism argues that literature should be viewed as a performing art in which each reader creates his or her own, possibly unique, text-related performance. It stands in total opposition to the theories of formalism and the New Criticism, in which the reader's role in re-creating literary works is ignored. New Criticism had emphasized that only that which is within a text is part of the meaning of a text. No appeal to the authority or intention of the author, nor to the psychology of the reader, was allowed in the discussions of orthodox New Critics.
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08:10 UTC
Adult Readers Help Me Please!!
I need help finding a book i read about 6 years ago when i was in 5th grade. I dont remember much about it but ive been searching the internet with what i know and come up with no results. The main parts of the story include teenagers finding a book of mythical creatures and going on an adventure. At one point in the story they mentioned little hobgoblin like creatures that steal and move things in your room while you sleep. One of the teenagers lived in a wealthy family and owned a race track behind their mansion. And at another point in the story they encountered a headless horseman. And at the back of the book there is like an encyclopedia of all the creatures they encounter throughout the story. Its not much to work with but if you know what book im referencing it would be greatly appreciated if you could tell me.
15:52 UTC
Please! Check this short story out. Comment and share Thank you!!
I would love it if you read my story that I just published on @inkitt http://inkitt.com/stories/romance/200576?utm_source=share_author #amwriting #inkitt
16:26 UTC
Arghh, have writers' block. Need sleep! Even MS word is getting impatient!
Yup, the little cursor keeps flashing at me, is that normal? I've been staring at this screen for, oh, since the other day. I need to rename my thriller's title. It's Bombay Blood, but people think its set in Bombay, but its not!! Here's the blurb. IF you have time, and IF you have managed to have sleep, blissful sleep, want some, then maybe you would read the short blurb and suggest a title. Then I will sleep. And it'll all be thanks to you... TKS.
A global threat. A corrupt system. A woman torn between duty and her own survival.
Not only is Secret Service Agent Lynn Clarke trained to protect, it’s in her nature. Supremely accomplished, resolved, and unstoppable, Lynn Clarke would give her life not only for the president, but any man, woman, or child who found themselves in danger while at her side.
The legal trading of human organs has not only become a lifesaving enterprise, it has created an industry richer and more powerful than any before. When details of Lynn’s extremely rare blood type are leaked to the leading organ-transplant company Zarus, alerting its blood-lusting CEO to this glittering gem, she finds it is her own life that is now in danger.
However, Lynn is not only prized by the bizarre perversions of the CEO, but also by his paying clients, VIPs who need Clarke’s rare organs to save themselves. The corrupt powers of Washington D.C race to isolate, discredit, and ultimately take her, piece by piece.
Sucked into a system that wants to harvest her very being, Lynn must fight a battle which cuts the country in two, in the courts and on the streets.
This is a battle she never foresaw and doesn’t expect to survive. But Lynn Clarke is a fighter, and a patriot, but to save the country, she must first save herself.
21:28 UTC
Is kadar ishq me mashhoor huwe hum
08:09 UTC