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Reader- Response

Reader- Response . Miranda Carlson, Matt Bergeron, Seth Nubbe , Kasey Kavanagh, Gerald Downwind, Easton Halbert. One can sort reader-response theorists into three groups. 1. Those who focus upon the individual reader's experience “individualists”

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Reader- Response

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  1. Reader- Response Miranda Carlson, Matt Bergeron, Seth Nubbe, Kasey Kavanagh, Gerald Downwind, Easton Halbert

  2. One can sort reader-response theorists into three groups • 1. Those who focus upon the individual reader's experience “individualists” • 2. Those who conduct psychological experiments on a defined set of readers “experimenters” • 3. Those who assume a fairly uniform response by all readers “uniformists”.

  3. Brief History • In the 1960s, David Bleich began collecting statements by influencing students of their feelings and associations. He used these to theorize about the reading process and to refocus the classroom teaching of literature. He claimed that his classes "generated" knowledge, that is, knowledge of how particular persons recreate texts.

  4. Meaning • Active reading: stopping and understanding bits and pieces of what you’ve read before continuing with the text. • Literary texts do not have a specific meaning and have a diversity in interpretations, but each text has limits to what it can be interpreted to.

  5. Reading Between the Lines • Trying to understand something that isn’t necessarily written in the text, but implied. • Readers use the knowledge that they have acquired outside of the text to help them better understand what the text means to him/her.

  6. Interpretation • Two people can interpret the same text in a different way. • Men and women can also interpret text differently • If you were to read a text and a few years later read it again, it might mean something completely different to you the second time.

  7. Interpretation • Personal values such as: religious, social, cultural and other values influence the way people can interpret a text. (like what we did in class with the “debate”, we each have different values and beliefs.)

  8. Frankenstein • In Frankenstein there is a lot of storms, which can be translated to scary or a tragedy. These storms are in specific times of the story, one being when Victor Frankenstein as a child experienced electricity when a lightening bolt hit a tree by his house. Later on in the story Frankenstein uses lightening during a storm to create life. On a rainy day Victor “bumps into” his creation while taking a walk. These scenes all have to do with the creature, and the creature in this story is made out to be scary and even a tragedy when he kills. Storms trigger some peoples fear and is enhanced when the creature comes to life.

  9. Work Cited • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reader-response_criticism • http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-reader-response-criticism.htm • http://www-as.phy.ohiou.edu/~rouzie/307j/critgroup/ReaderResponse.html • http://www.answers.com/topic/reader-response-criticism.com • http://home.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/spring97/litcrit.html

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