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  • 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".
  • 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 the downside of using reader response approach in classroom?
    Leads to wrong belief that every reading is valid.
  • Whose name is associated with Reader response school of America?
    Stenley Fish.
  • 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.
  • What role do prior experiences play in a reader’s interpretation of a novel?
    They help shape expectations, emotional engagement, and ethical judgments.
  • 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
  • Count 3 influential reader response critics.
    R. Barthes, D. Bleich, S. Booth, Jonathan Culler, J. Fetterley, S. Fish, others.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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"
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