2nd module (part 2)

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An approach to literary criticism and analysis that focuses on how readers are actively engaged in the creation of meaning in a text.

Reader-Response Approach

This Criticism focuses on the reader's psychological experience of reading a text, and how the reader creates meaning from what the text has given them as they read.

Reader-Response Approach

Types of Readers

Implied Reader, Actual Reader, Resisting Reader

who the author has in mind when they are writing the text, who they expect to react to, pick up on, interpret and experience aspects of the text in a certain way.

Implied Reader

the person who sits down to read a book, who may belong to a different social or historical context, and whose identity and opinions may mean that they read the text differently from how they are "supposed to" - the responses that the text invites.

Actual Reader

who refuses to fulfill the role of the implied reader - who refuses to read the text how it was "supposed to be read".

Resisting Reader

It is an approach to literary criticism and analysis that focuses on how readers are actively engaged in the creation of meaning in a text.

Reader-Response Criticism

It is the reader that the text expects to react to, pick up on, interpret and experience aspects of the text in a certain way.

Implied Reader

They belong to interpretive communities based on shared contexts and traits, and this influences how they create meanings in texts.

Readers

According to ___ the text is an event, an interaction, a performance.

Reader-Response Criticism

It is important to consider the way a text cultivates a specific reading experience for its reader. Oftentimes, the reader experience is built into how we should interpret the text.

Reader-Response Criticism

It is a kind of literature that presents ordinary day-to-day experiences as they occur in reality. It is conveyed through the stylistic elements and the language used in a literary text. In works of __, language is usually accessible and succinct, depicting people one would encounter in day-to-day life and everyday experience.

Realism

It shies away from elaborate expression and instead focuses on reflecting the truth. Literary __ often focuses on middle and lower class members of society, and places familiar to many people. It is a style [in literature] that represents the familiar or 'typical' in real life, rather than an idealized, formalized, or romantic interpretation of it.

Realism

It (1865-1914) was a literary movement that focused on the objective and detached observation of human nature using scientific principles.

Naturalism

It also observed how environmental, social, and hereditary factors impacted human nature. It rejected movements such as Romanticism, which embraced subjectivity, the individual, and imagination. It also differed from Realism by applying the scientific method to the narrative structure.

Naturalism

It has a few key characteristics to look for. These characteristics include a focus on setting, objectivism and detachment, pessimism, and determinism.

Naturalism

It is a movement starting in the early 20th century, which united a range of artistic mediums from prose, drama, poetry, art, painting, film, and music. It is characterised by a distorted style and form which is highly subjective and abandons conventional narrative and meter.

Expressionism

Born out of growing disillusionment in society, the __ wanted a total break from tradition. It revolted against two previous movements called Realism and Naturalism, of which the former was criticised for their bourgeois and middle-class representations.

Expressionism

Unlike these movements, it refused to believe that one can accurately portray life by focusing on the exterior world. Instead, they thought the inner world was real rather than the external world. They wanted to show life beyond the surface and tap into the emotions and inner spirit of the individual. As such, an emphasis is placed on the individual and their subjective self-expression.

Expressionism

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