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Theory Development
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What is Reader's Response?
The critical lens in which the method of literary criticism is analyzing text for personal connections.
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Who is Stanley Fish?
He was a critic who contributed to the idea of effective stylistics and that readers must rely on their own views to gain understanding of the text.
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Name one strength of the theory.
(Refer to slide)
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Define Reader in terms of Reader's Response.
Responsible for making the meaning within the text.
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What psychologist initiated the ideas of self reflection?
Sigmund Freud
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What is the role of the reader in this lens?
To bring meaning to the text and connect to it through personal experience.
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Who believed our interpretations of the text are interpretations of our own perspectives. Reader's responses are the text.
David Bleich
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Name one weakness of the theory?
(refer to slide)
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Who is the Implied Reader?
Who the text is targeting, can be found through diction and narration.
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What movement held back the progression of reader's response?
New Criticism
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What is the purpose of Reader's Response?
To formulate the reader's own opinion and analysis of a text based on personal connections.
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Who wrote the Implied Reader?
Wolfgang Iser
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True or false: Every response is equally valid.
False
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Define Affective Stylistics.
Reader must rely on their own subjective/affective reaction to understand the text. (Stanley Fish)
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How did the writing of The Implied Reader contribute to the development of the theory?
It identified patterns of communication through the work and introduced the implied reader.
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Does whether or not the reader like the text factor into Reader's Response?
Yes it does.
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What piece of literature is Norman N. Holland known for?
The Dynamics of Literary Response
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Should readers be prepared to support and defend their argument?
They should
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What is the significance of an interpretive community?
It influences the way the reader interprets the text and allows them to build new ideas.
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How did the Authority of Interpretive Communities contribute to the theory?
It introduced the notion of interpretive communities, and grew the bases of readers response to include more than just individual responses.
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Name one typical question to ask your self while reading a literary piece in this lens as written on the slide.
How does the interaction of text and reader create meaning? Does the sounds/shapes of the words as they appear on the page or how they are spoken by the reader enhance the meaning of the work? How might we interpret a literary text to show that the reader's response is, or is similar to, the topic of the story? What does the criticism published about a text suggest about the critics who interpreted that text?
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What laid the groundwork for the theory?
Rosenblatt's Literature as Exploration
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Can the reader over analyze the text? Why or Why not?
Yes, as it may lead the reader to not explore the true meaning of the text.
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What is subjective criticism.
Reader's shouldn't force themselves to find one significance, instead embrace the individuality that can be applied to analysis.
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Who wrote Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost?
Stanley Fish