A. The reader reaponse approach recognizes reading as a creative endeavor.

This approach is
centered on the internal mental process of the readers.
B. This type of criticism believes that no literary work is self-contained. The text's meaning is
dependent on the reader's perspective and interpretation.
C. This approach investigates the plurality of readings. Critics examine how people who have
differing religion, social values, and culture, view the same text.
D. In employing the reader response approach, critics don't focus exclusively on the values
underlying a text, but the underlying values of the reader and the grey areas in between.

(1st paragraph)

Readers-response criticism tries to describe what goes on in the mind of the reader as he or she interprets
a text. Reader-response theory views reading as a creative activity, whereas traditional criticism considers
imaginative writing is a creative act. Reader-response critics think that no text can provide self-contained
meaning; literary texts cannot exist without the interpretation of the reader. It is not complete until a text
has been read and interpreted. The practical challenge derives from the fact that no two people read a text
in the same way. Reader-response criticism respects the inherent variety of readings rather than declaring
one interpretation correct and the other incorrect. Rather of attempting to ignore or resolve the
fundamental conflicts in this circumstance, it analyzes them.

(2nd para) Reader-response criticism, in its simplest gist, is akin to the common experience of rereading a
book (perhaps a childhood favorite) after many years. It is often a shocking experience to reread a novel
—for example, one that has "changed your life" during your adolescent years—as an adult. The book may
seem different: characters you might have liked most from before would seem less admirable now, and
that one hated character would turn out to be more sympathetic after all. The book has not changed, but
you most certainly have after the intervening years. This is what reader-response criticism investigates:
how different individuals (or classes of individuals) perceive the same text in varied perspectives.

Reader-response's foreground deals with how the established religious, cultural, and social values could
affect how we read and respond to a work of fiction. This type of criticism also encompasses gender
criticism, concerning how men and women come up with disparate assumptions after reading similar
texts. It also recognizes how different insights are inevitable that instead of repudiating or connecting the
contradictions, it evaluates them. Considering that this rejects the notion that there can be a single
accurate reading for a literary text, it doesn't deem all readings permissible and draws limitations to its
possible interpretation. This involves changing the setting, the way the plot unfolds, or even redefining
characters.