Reception and Readers Response Theory

1. Reception and Readers Response Theory Paul Franco English 126 Prof: Evelyn Lugo S00675977

2. Reception Theory Is a branch of modern literary studies concerned with the ways in which literary works are received by readers. "expectations" or frame of reference is based on the reader's past experience of literature and what preconceived notions about literature the reader possesses; the action of receiving, or taking in, physically or spatially.

3. The Receiver • Its one of the crucial components of all media systems, with out it there would be no way of telling what people are saying because we couldn't receive the message.the readers' receptions of a text are completely independent from the author's original intentions or the literary critics' interpretations of the text. The meaning of a text is defined by its readers' receptions: readers, not authors, make meaning

4. What places do we receive a message? • Book • Movies • Tele vision • Newspaper • Mail • Langue • Radio • Music • Internet • Video Chat

5. Readers Response

6. Readers Response • Is basically an idea where the meaning happens while reading, between the text and the reader. literary theory that focus on the responses of readers to literary works, rather than on the works themselves considered as self‐contained entities.

7. Styles There some styles or identity themes of readers are similar in the next slides I will speak of the styles of readers response.

8. Styles • Character-Action-Moral Style- treat literature as coextensive with experience. • DiggersforSecrets- find hidden meanings in literature,psychoanalyze motives of characters, etc. • Anthropologists- look for cultural patterns, norms, values.

9. Types of readers There are two types of readers: • The implied reader, who is established by the response-inviting structures of the text; this type of reader is assumed and created by the work itself. • The actual reader, who brings his/her own experiences and preoccupations to the text.

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