Reader-response Theory is a modern theory in literary criticism, illuminating the response of readers to texts and less dealing with the objective features of literary works.
Reader-response theory is not so much a specific doctrine as it is a general reorientation to literary texts. It includes denial and an invitation: a refusal to accept texts as self-sufficient units and an invitation to readers to focus on the ways in which texts elicit answers (in other words, the ways in which texts affect readers and readers in turn). correspond to the texts).
The meaning of the text does not inhabit the entire text but appears in the series of answers that make up the reading process.
Wolfgang Iser’s The Act of Reading (1978) and Stanley Fish’s Is There Text in This Class (1980) are the two most influential formulations of the reader‘s response approach.
Receptive theory is sometimes used as a synonym for reader-response theory, but perhaps more often this expression means in a narrower sense the receptive aesthetics of Hans Robert Jauss.
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