Stanley Fish
Martin Heidegger
Norman Holland
Edmund Husserl
Wolfgang Iser
Hans Robert Jauss
Reader-response theory places the reader's interaction with the text as central to its understanding. A reader interprets a work by drawing on his or her own experiences and supplying personal meanings. Thus, each reader's experience with a work is unique.
Norman Holland is credited with founding the reader-response theory in 1960 when he wrote The Dynamics of Literary Response.
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