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How might a psychoanalytic critic approach a reader’s response to Atonement?
By analyzing unconscious desires and personal experiences that shape the reader’s interpretation.
What role do prior experiences play in a reader’s interpretation of a novel?
They help shape expectations, emotional engagement, and ethical judgments.
How does Norman Holland apply psychoanalysis to reader response theory?
Norman Holland used Freudian psychoanalysis to explain how readers unconsciously transform literary texts into psychological experiences.
What is Wolfgang Iser’s concept of "gaps" in a text, and how do they affect the reader?
Wolfgang Iser introduced the idea that literary texts contain "gaps" (Leerstellen) that require readers to actively participate in creating meaning.
How do different critics define the "reader" in reader response theory?
Different critics define the reader in various ways: Culler’s "competent reader" understands literary structures, Iser’s "participating reader"
How do individual differences and prior experiences influence a reader’s interpretation of a text?
Personal history, gender, past reading experiences, and exposure to adaptations (e.g., films) shape how readers interpret a text.
What is the difference between formalist approach and reader response approach?
One of them deals with a text, another one with a reader.
Count 3 influential reader response critics.
R. Barthes, D. Bleich, S. Booth, Jonathan Culler, J. Fetterley, S. Fish, others.
In Rip Van Winkle whose character is not acceptable according to J. Fetterley?
Rip Van Winkle's wife-Dame Van Winkle, as she is described as stereotyped "nagging shrew".
Whose name is associated with Reader response school of America?
Stenley Fish.
What is the downside of using reader response approach in classroom?
Leads to wrong belief that every reading is valid.
What is about the notion of "interpretive community" and whose idea is it?
"People that are from the same interpretive community share common ways of interpreting" Stenley Fish
