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READER RESPONSE THEORY

Daniele Iavarone

DEFINITION: A theory, which gained prominence in the late 1960s, that focuses on the
reader or audience reaction to a particular text, perhaps more than the text itself.

NEW CRITICISM READER-RESPONSE THEORY


The text has a meaning. The reader The text has no meaning before a
has to discover through analysis. reader experiences reading it.

MAIN REPRESENTATIVES:
Norman Holland READER EXPERIENCE MIGHT BE
INFLUENCED BY MULTIPLE
Stanley Fish
David Bleich FACTORS, THUS ATTRIBUTING A
NEW MEANING TO THE TEXT
Wolfgang Iser
Hans Robert Jauss DURING EACH READERS
Roland Barthes EXPERIENCE
Louise Rosenblatt mood
Clive Staples Louis time
light
PERIOD OF MAJOR ACTIVITY: psychological background
1960s 1970s previous experiences
expectations
reviews
No two persons ever read the same book personal beliefs
Edmund Wilson and more

MAIN RRT APPROACHES:


Subjective RRT:
Transactional RRT: Meaning comes from individual written
Text and reader are both necessary responses to a text, which are then compared
in the production of meaning. There is an to other reactions to find continuity of meaning
exchange between the text and the reader.
Interpretation influences the meaning of the Psychological RRT:
book and the book influences the What motivate the reader to read a text,
interpretation influences the meaning of the text itself.

Social RRT:
Meaning is the result of a community READING CAN BE
interpreting the text and sharing an AESTHETIC
interpretation strategy. when the reading experience comes solely
for the pleasure of reading
Affective stylistics: AFFERENT
The text exists only because of the when the reading experience comes in
reader. Therefore, the meaning depends on search for information from the text
the reader.
RRT analyzes aesthetic reading

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