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Our most Gracious Heavenly Father, thank you for this

new day that we gather here in our Synchronous Session.


We ask for Your guidance and providence of wisdom and
understanding as we pursue our short session today.
Protect us and our families from sickness and may You
always be with us throughout the day.
Warm up:

What is Reader-Response
Criticism?
Reader-Response Criticism
Reader-Response Criticism

● Focuses on the reader and their experience.


● Allows the reader to relate to the text
emotionally and connect to the events
happening within the text.
● Emphasizes that the meaning of a text is
dependent upon the reader's response to it.
Subjective vs. Objective

Fixed and Subjective and


objective dependent on the
reader’s
interpretation
Subjective vs. Objective

● Against the formalist approach


● Takes into consideration the personality of the
reader and the ways he contributes to the
making of the text.
● Reveals more about the reader's
personality than about the text.
The criticism itself can be classified
into four types:

a. Transactional reader-response theory


b. Psychological reader-response theory
c. Social reader-response theory
d. Subjective reader-response theory
Transactional
Reader-Response Theory

● Louise Rosenblatt and Wolfgang Iser


● Involves a transaction between the
text's inferred meaning and
the individual interpretation by
the reader
● Influenced by their personal
emotions and knowledge.
Examples of Reader-Response Questions:
● "What do I personally think that this text means?”
● "Have I ever had an experience like this? What did I learn from it?"
● "Have I ever felt the way that the characters in this text feel?"
● "What personal qualities or characteristics do I have that might be
relevant to my reading of this text?”
● "Are my morals reflected in this text? How are my morals the
different or the same as those highlighted in the text?"
● "What issues are the most important in the text? Why do I think
these issues are the most important?"
● "What words or phrases are most important to me? Why?"
Examples

1. Deconstructionism
Psychological Readers-Response

● Norman Holland
● reader's motives heavily
affect how they read
● analyze the psychological
response of the reader
Examples

1. Psychoanalysis Approach/Lens
2. Carl Jung’s Archetype
Social Readers-Response Theory

● Stanley Fish
● Individual interpretation of a text is
created in an interpretive community of
minds consisting of participants who
share a specific reading and
interpretation strategy.
Examples

1. Marxism Approach/Lens
2. Feminism Approach/Lens
Subjective Reader-Response

● David Bleich
● Comparison of individual
written responses to other
individual’s interpretations
to find continuity of
meaning.
Conclusion

Reader Response Criticism seeks to


redefine the reader's relationship to the
text, arguing that readers are not just
passive consumers of a text's meaning,
rather, they create its meaning.
ACTIVITY:

● Form 4 groups.
● Pick a literary lens to present.
● Use the assigned group literature for your group
analysis.
● Make a diagram of your literary analysis
according to the assigned lens.
● You have 20 minutes to accomplish the task.
RUBRICS:

Literary Piece Relevance: 25 points


Diagram: 15 points
Subtheme/Explanation: 10 points
___________________________________
Total: 50 points

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