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Literary Theories

Literary Theories. Reader Response. Key Points : The Reader. Reader is more important than the text Text has no meaning until it is read by the reader Denies possibility that works are universal

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Literary Theories

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  1. Literary Theories Reader Response

  2. Key Points: The Reader • Reader is more important than the text • Text has no meaning until it is read by the reader • Denies possibility that works are universal • May consider the strategies employed by the author to elicit a certain response from readers

  3. Key Points: Literary Components • Through thoughts, moods, and experiences connected to the reading, the reader createsthe meaning of the text • Features of the work (plot, style, character, etc.) are less important than the personal connection the reader makes with the text

  4. Questions/Strategies to Apply: • What does the text remind you of? • How does it make you feel? • How does it connect with your life? • What about the text makes you think or feel a particular way? (author strategies?)

  5. Arguments in favor: • People’s interpretations of a text vary and may change over time. (Your mood and feelings as a reader change your perception) • Validates the importance of the reader as co-creator of the experience (It’s a shared experience with you and the text)

  6. Arguments against: • Too subjective (no right or wrong answer or interpretation) • No adequate criteria for evaluating one reading versus another (no rubric. What are you grading on? A feeling?)

  7. Reader Meaning Text

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