Reader-Response Criticism: Audience as Context | |
Chapter Objectives1.Based on an affective theory which locates meaning in the response of the reader (rather than the author or the text); |
2.Encompasses Freudian, Jungian, and other "myth" criticism which seek to explain why certain works of literature elicit deep responses within the collective consciousness of a community of readers; |
3.Some more recent reader-response critics argue that a text can hold objective "clues" to its own reading and that meaning is produced through interaction between text and reader. |
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