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What Is Reader Response? - Reader’s reactions to literature by interpreting the text in their own

way

Goal of Reader Response- To be able to look at the literature, and take something from it.

Reader Response is relating to the reader’s personal life.

Who was the founder/ creator of Reader Response?- Reader Response started in the late 1960’s.

-The critics in the group were Stanley Fish, Wolfgang Iser, and Norman N. Holland.

-They started questioning different things, such as how reader response creates literary text.

How did Reader/ Response come about?- School of criticism, which emerged in the 1970s

- It considers reader’s reactions to literature as vital to interpreting the meaning of the text.

- Reader Response theorists share two beliefs:

1) Role of the reader cannot be omitted from our understanding of literature

2) Readers do not passively consume the meaning by an objective literary text; rather they actively make the meaning they find in literature

How can a reader recognize Reader Response in songs?- Reader response can be recognized in songs quite simply.

- Whenever you find yourself listening to a song and feeling what it’s saying, is Reader Response.

- All songs can relate to someone’s life, but the way someone interprets it is also an example of Reader Response.

Works Cited Works Cited

Shmoop Editorial Team. “Reader-Response Theory.” Shmoop.com. Shmoop University, Inc., Nov. 2008. Web. 16 Oct. 2015.

<http://www.shmoop.com/reader

-response-theory/>

“Welcome To the Purdue OWL.” Purdue OWL: Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism. Web. 16 Oct. 2015.

<https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/722/06/>