Reader-Response

LITERARY THEORY

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Reader-response criticism

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• is a school of literary theory that

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focuses on the reader and their
experience of a literary work (Tyson,

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2006)

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It revolves around the phenomena ‘Respond to

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Reading’. The theory identifies the reader as a
significant and active agent who is responsible

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to impart the real

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meaning of the text by interpreting it.

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Reader-Response criticism offers a
subjective or egocentric, reading of

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a text. Egocentric refers to anything
that regards the self of the

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Reader Response critics believe that a reader’s

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interaction with the text gives the text its
meaning. The text cannot exist without the

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reader.

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A successful reader-response critic does
not just respond to a text—anyone can

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do that—but analyzes his or her

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response, or the responses of others.

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Our life experiences and the
communities we

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belong to greatly influence our reading

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of a text

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The role of the reader cannot be
omittedfrom our understanding of

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literature (unlike New Critics who

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believe that the meaning of a text is

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contained in the text alone).

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Readers do not passively consume the
meaning presented to them by an

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objective literary text. Instead, readers

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actively make the meaning they find in

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literature.

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Reader-Response criticism offers a
subjective or egocentric, reading of

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a text. Egocentric refers to anything
that regards the self of the

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individual as the center of all

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things.

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