prose text may‚ to some extent‚ control reader response to themes within the text but the reader’s context may also influence the way the text is read. It is particularly evident in Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale that by examining the experience of women within the world it is evident that women are more repressed. The characterisation of Offred may control reader response to theme because her own personal experiences are projected onto the reader. In Gilead‚ women are repressed by male
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New Criticism vs. Reader-Response A piece of work can be evaluated in plenty of ways. Critique methods such as Reader-Response‚ Deconstructive Criticism‚ New Criticism‚ and many others act as examples of literary evaluations. All of the critique methods share similarities‚ but differ in other ways. Reader-Response and New Criticism‚ for example‚ share characteristics but they are also two very opposing things. Reader-Response focuses on attention towards the text influenced by the reader’s thoughts
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This dynamic between the arguments of Smith and Chidester is similar to the dynamic between the notions of authorial intent and reader-response‚ respectively. Authorial intent emphasizes the author as the guarantor of meaning. Here‚ the meaning of a work is determined by what the author intended for it to be. On the other hand‚ reader-response is the belief that the interpretation and meaning of a work should be determined by the audience‚ instead of the author. While both arguments are compelling
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audience that it is better to accept death than to ignore it through the accounts of Miss Emily’s journey. William Faulkner’s story takes place in the South‚ during a time period of racial discrimination and major changes. By using reader response criticism‚ a reader can analyze “A Rose for Emily” through the aspects of the secret held within the story‚ race found through anthropology‚ and gender found through anthropology. To begin with‚ one can analyze “A Rose for Emily” by examining the hidden
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Joshua Smith ENGL 2342-002 Jane Focht-Hansen Monday‚ March 31‚ 2014 Reader Response Criticism and C.S. Lewis’s “An Experiment in Criticism” C.S. Lewis‚ besides being the author of many popular children’s stories‚ was a professor of medieval literature at both Cambridge and Oxford. Contrary to what might be supposed‚ he was not an author by career‚ and much of what he wrote was in the same vein of his area of expertise‚ literary analysis. “An Experiment in Criticism” is his longest and
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A Rose for Emily‚ Reader Response Critique Using reader response criticism‚ the reader can analyze William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily through characters‚ action‚ and secrets or hidden meanings. The reader can analyze a lot about A Rose for Emily through the characters and make many connections to them and the story. For example‚ for a period of the story William Faulkner described Emily’s appearance as “bloated‚ like a body long submerged in motionless water and of that pallid hue”. This appearance
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Online Store Ministries Donate Outlines & Charts A BRIEF HISTORY OF LITERARY THEORY III By Chris Lang The Reader-Response Theory of Stanley Fish He drew a circle that shut me out-Heretic‚ rebel‚ a thing to flout: But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in! Edwin Markham At this point I would like to take a closer look at Stanley Fish’s reader-response theory. It is my intent first to examine Fish’s literary theory before criticizing it and then tie it in more broadly
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controlled‚ though varying in style; Newlove is consistent with his message. Much of this poem is consistent in its grey tonality. In the opening stanza‚ Newlove uses "I remember" ‚ which invites readers to identify with him and the subject of which he writes. He writes "It is a romantic world to readers of journeys to the Northern Ocean-especially if their houses are heated to some degree" ‚ indicating that Canadian life was romanticized by those who read the journals and heard the tales. The writer
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Reader Response One: Responding to “My Father’s Life‚” by Raymond Carver The last paragraph of this essay is my favorite by far‚ “…in their beautiful voices out of my childhood. Raymond.” The author of this story made it so tangible the dislike Raymond Jr. had for his birth name that it felt like a true revelation when the character finally embraced it. To hear his father’s name echo as his own name and to enjoy it leaves the reader with the same sense of happiness. The author of this essay
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introduces to us an existence which can never be satisfied...something is always missing.” However‚ further down the page I am a bit confused about this quote: “in Joyce’s text‚ the division between signifier and signified becomes an area in which the reader is in (and at) play – producing meaning
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