Reader Response Theory Flashcards
1
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Implied Reader
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A reader who is expected to respond in specific ways to “response inviting structures”
2
Q
Actual reader
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Responses inevitable coloured by his or her own experiences
3
Q
Gaps
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Must fill in the gaps by explaining them, creating in his or her mind aspects of a work that aren’t in the text but are incited by the text.
4
Q
Interpretive communities
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Composed of members who share a particular reading strategy or set of community assumptions they bring to reading.
5
Q
Transactional Approach
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Text controls the reader / reader controls the text
6
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Reception Theory
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Recognizes that readers in different historical periods will judge the text in different ways
