A CRITICA LITERÁRIA

UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO PIAUI – UESPI[pic 1]

CENTRO DE CIÊNCIAS HUMANAS E LETRAS – CCHL

CURSO DE LICENCIATURA PLENA EM LETRAS/INGLÊS

BLOCO IV – TURNO VESPERTINO

DISCIPLINA: CRÍTICA LITERÁRIA

PROFESSOR: MÁRIO EDUARDO

ALUNO: JEAN FABIO GOMES PEREIRA

Reader – Response Criticism .

Overview – Chapter 6

Reader-Response Criticism focuses on reader´s responses to literary tests and is a large and exciting domain of literary studies that helps lear about our own reading processes connecting it with a whole context of elements and ideas within the text  and with our life and society context. Reader-response theory recognizes the reader as an active agent who imparts "real existence" to the work and completes its meaning through interpretation. Reader-response criticism argues that literature should be viewed as a performing art in which each reader creates their own, possibly unique, text-related performance. It stands in total opposition to the theories of formalism and the New Criticism, in which the reader's role in re-creating literary works is ignored. New Criticism had emphasized that only that which is within a text is part of the meaning of a text. No appeal to the authority or intention of the author, nor to the psychology of the reader, was allowed in the discussions of orthodox New Critics.

 Reader-Response covers a good deal of diverse ground. It states that readers can not be passive towards the text. Different readers may read the same text quiet differently . A written text is not an  object and  how do our responses are formed and what role does the text play in creating them? There are many approaches such as Transactional Reader- Response Theory ; Affective Stylistics ;Subjective Reader-Response Theory;Psychological Reader-Response theory and Social Reader-Response Theory . It does not matter what way or approach is used  , but the ultimate goal of Reader-Response Criticism is to increase our understanding of the Reading process by investigsting the activities in which readers engage and the effects of those activities on their interpretations.