Ad
related to: characteristics of reader response criticism history
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader (or "audience") and their experience of a literary work, in contrast to other schools and theories that focus attention primarily on the author, content, or form of the work.
Jane Tompkins (born 1940) is an American literary scholar who has worked on canon formation, feminist literary criticism, and reader response criticism. [1] She has also coined and developed the notion of cultural work in literary studies [2] [3] and contributed to the new historicist form of literary criticism that emerged in the 1980s.
New Criticism developed as a reaction to the older philological and literary history schools of the US North, which focused on the history and meaning of individual words and their relation to foreign and ancient languages, comparative sources, and the biographical circumstances of the authors, taking this approach under the influence of nineteenth-century German scholarship.
David Bleich is an American literary theorist and academic. He is noted for developing the Bleich "heuristic", a reader-response approach to teaching literature. [1]He is also a proponent of reader-response criticism to literature, advocating subjective interpretations of literary texts.
the unimportance of the "feelings" of the reader (114) the limitation of literary criticism to the study of the literary object, i.e., the work itself (116) However, at the same time, Eliot takes the opportunity to disavow that school of criticism. He ridicules one of the methods of New Criticism, known today as close reading, describing it thus:
Reader-response criticism developed in Germany and the United States as a reaction to New Criticism. It emphasises the reader's role in the development of meaning. [26] Reception theory is a development of reader-response criticism that considers the public response to a literary work and suggests that this can inform analysis of cultural ...
New England. A white Christmas was in short supply in New England last year. Both Burlington, Vermont, and Caribou, Maine, had a brown Christmas in 2023, but have had more than 30 inches of snow ...
According to Ousby, 'Among modern critical uses of psychoanalysis is the development of "ego psychology" in the work of Norman Holland, who concentrates on the relations between reader and text' [14] – as with reader response criticism. Rollin writes that 'Holland's experiments in reader response theory suggest that we all read literature ...