What?
A person who is just as important as the author in interpreting the meaning of a text
Who is the reader?
The year in which reader-response criticism first appeared
What is 1938?
One of the first people to write about the reader-response theory
Who is Louise Rosenblatt?
The person responsible for determining bias, racism, sexism, etc. in a literary work
Who is the reader?
The act that an individual performs on the story as they read it
What is creating?
One of three sub-lenses of reader-response theory
What are psychoanalytic, feminist and structuralist lenses?
The time period in which reader-response became a more popular form of literary criticism
What is 1960-1970?
The main theorist for developing reader-response criticism
Who is Wolfgang Iser?
The part of the text that is solely up to the reader to decide
What is interpretation/meaning?
The side that a reader is forced to pick after reading a text when using the reader-response lens
What is neither?
A trait that gives each reader a different interpretation of a text
What is perspective?
The places in which many of the ideas for reader-response originated
What are the USA and Germany?
Two of four of the individuals who helped to develop reader-response theory
Who are Stanley Fish, David Bleich, Norman Holland, and Wolfgang Iser?
The reason that reader-response is an easy lens to apply
What is the tendency to make personal connections to text as we read?
The act you must never do when you make a literary criticism using the reader-response lens
What is summarizing?
A downfall of reader-response criticism
What is a skewed outlook or lack of empathy?
The type of text in which the first reader-response criticism was made
What is a poem?
The story which the names of the children in The Veldt are alluding to
What is Peter Pan?
The reason quotes are important in reader-response theory
What is connotation?
One of five things to look for when creating a criticism
What is the meaning, preference, flaws, opinion, and thesis of a text?
The opposing lens to reader-response theory
What is structuralism?
The name of the text in which reader-response first appeared
What is Literature as Exploration?
The most important person in this room when interpreting the meaning of The Veldt
Who am I?
The main question you must ask yourself when you use the reader-response criticism for a literary work
What is: How has it changed you?
The act that the reader does to the text as they read instead of consuming/discovering it
What is constructing/creating?