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A Million Lenses

A Million Lenses . Reader Response Criticism . Malissa Hall Adama Wagay India Hicks. Vocab Formalist – readers that read to find the meaning of literature also called “new critics.” Subjective Critics – it depends on your personal perspective, and ay opinion can be valid.

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A Million Lenses

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  1. A Million Lenses

  2. Reader Response Criticism Malissa Hall Adama Wagay India Hicks

  3. Vocab Formalist – readers that read to find the meaning of literature also called “new critics.” Subjective Critics – it depends on your personal perspective, and ay opinion can be valid. Dialectal presentation – forces readers to discover the truth on their own Rhetorical Presentation – literature that reflects and reinforces opinions that readers already hold.

  4. Show that a work gives readers something to do. • Describe what the reader does by the way reader responds. Goals Of RR Critics

  5. Richard 1929 “The personal situation of the reader inevitably affects his reading, and many more are drawn into poetry in quest of some reflection of their latest emotional crisis than would admit it.”

  6. “ A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experience as relevant to text ” “ A poem presupposes a reader actively involved with a text. “ Louise Rosenblatt

  7. Stanley Fish“Literature exists when it is read.” Norman Holland : what do readers uses texts for?

  8. Lens Analysis (Pg 51) Mrs. Grose explains to the governess the type of relationship Miles and Peter Quince had. (Pg 120) Miles dies in the hands of the governess.

  9. Any Questions?

  10. James, Henry, and Mariette Lydis. The Turn of the Screw. New York: Heritage, 1949. Print. Work Cited

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