Literary Theory and Research: Reader Response
For researching literary topics.
Key Individuals
Stanley Fish
Martin Heidegger
Norman Holland
Edmund Husserl
Wolfgang Iser
Hans Robert Jauss
Books in the Library
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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Is there a text in this class? : The authority of interpretive communities byCall Number: PN81 .F56
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Reader-response criticism : from formalism to post-structuralism by Call Number: PN98.R38 R4ISBN: 080182401X -
Readers in history : nineteenth-century American literature and the contexts of response by Call Number: PS201 .R37 1993ISBN: 0801844371 -
The dynamics of literary response by Call Number: PN49 .H64 1989ISBN: 9780231069809 -
The implied reader; patterns of communication in prose fiction from Bunyan to Beckett. byCall Number: PN3491 .I813
