U9 Key Terms

Question 1

Reader reception

Answer 1

A branch of modern literary studies concerned with the ways in which literary works are received by readers. “Argues that literary works are received against an existing horizon of expectations consisting of readers’ current knowledge and presuppositions about literature, and that the meanings of works change as such horizons shift”

Question 2

Reading communities

Answer 2

Describes different kinds of reading community, such as book clubs, book blogging, social networks, and poetry circles, and the ways in which they can help learners to engage with literary texts