Outing the Perverse

2018 ◽  
pp. 251-268
Author(s):  
Leland S. Person
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Reader Responses ◽  
The Way

This reader-centered essay examines four of Poe’s murder tales (“The Black Cat,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Imp of the Perverse,” and “The Cask of Amontillado”) by focusing on the way Poe seduces readers into identifying with criminals. Using Poe’s concept of “perverseness”—the irresistible impulse to do what one should not—the essay examines the ways that Poe plays with perverseness as a means of manipulating reader response. The Imp impels confession in “Imp of the Perverse” but compels both murder and confession in “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” as perverseness becomes an authorial power. “The Cask of Amontillado” represents the culmination of Poe’s experiment with perverseness, as he manipulates reader responses through first, second, and third readings of the tale.

Biblical Criticism and the Challenge of Postmodernism

1995 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Terence J. Keegan
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Biblical Criticism ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

AbstractPostmodernism involves recognizing that the objective certitude sought by modern scientific and humanistic methods is not possible. Deconstruction paved the way for postmodernism in literary studies, but it is most evident in the work of some reader-response critics. Many reader-response critics utilize the indeterminacy of postmodern insight but are hesitant to accept its subjectivist implications. Biblical scholars tend to prefer methods that yield verifiable results, but some have successfully used postmodern approaches. Christian scholars, though committed to an idea of transcendence to which postmodernism seems to deny access, can still profitably use postmodern approaches but must be prepared to deal with such questions as inspiration and the relation of scholarship to the Church.

scholarly journals Dokia Humenna’s Depiction of the Second World War and the OUN in Khreshchatyi iar: How Readers Responded

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Myroslav Shkandrij
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Reader Response ◽  
Ukrainian Academy ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
Emigre Literature ◽  
Second World ◽  
The Way

<p class="EW-abstract"><strong>Abstract:</strong> When Dokia Humenna’s novel depicting the Second World War, <em>Khreshchatyi iar</em> (Khreshchatyk Ravine), was published in New York in 1956, it created a controversy. Readers were particularly interested in the way activists of the OUN were portrayed. This article analyzes readers’ comments and Humenna’s responses, which are today stored in the archives of the Ukrainian Academy of Science in New York. The novel is based on a diary Humenna kept during the German occupation of Kyiv in the years 1941-1943.</p><strong>Keywords: </strong>Dokia Humenna, <em>Khreshchatyi iar</em>, Second World War, OUN, Émigré Literature, Reader Response

scholarly journals Powerful Prose

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Reader Response Theory ◽  
Reading Experience ◽  
Reader Responses ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Psychological Features

What makes a reading experience »powerful«? This volume brings together literary scholars, linguists, and empirical researchers to elucidate the effects and reader responses to investigate just that. The thirteen contributions theorize this widely-used, but to date insufficiently studied notion, and provide insights into the therefore still mysterious-seeming power of literary fiction. The collection investigates a variety of stylistic as well as readerly and psychological features responsible for short- and long-term effects - topics of great interest to those interested or specialized in literary studies and narratology, (cognitive) stylistics, empirical literary studies and reader response theory.

scholarly journals The Beginnings of Translation Studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 101-119
Author(s):  
Paul St-Pierre
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Reader Response ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Reader Response Theory ◽  
Novel Approaches ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The Way

It was in the 1970s that the object of study in literature departments began to change, under the impetus of novel approaches, some radically new and others renewed forms of older ones—structuralism, semiotics, intertextuality, psychoanalysis, pragmatics, deconstruction, reader-response theory, hermeneutics, discourse analysis, etc. Many (but not all) of these were French in origin, at least in part: the names of Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, Kristeva, Lacan, Derrida, Ricoeur, Foucault can be cited. And along with the change in the definition of the object of study came a change in the way literature departments defined themselves and their role. This is clear from the way department of literatures renamed themselves and introduced new programs. These changes came about at different times in different places, dependent in good part on the amount of access that existed to the publications—many of which were in French—but especially to the debates they gave rise to. It was in this context of expansion and of redefinition—presented here in terms of my own particular history—that an interest in translation, and later in Translation Studies, developed. Of course, translation was not an entirely new object of study; linguists and students of literature (especially of comparative literature) had on occasion acknowledged its existence, and even at times, its importance. However, it was only with the advent of the new approaches to texts, to reading, to interpretation, and to the context of the transmission of meaning(s) and of expression, that a conception of the importance of translation, and of its interest from a theoretical point of view, was able to develop. This led, in the 1980s, to the construction of a new discipline—Translation Studies.

scholarly journals IMPOLITE READER RESPONSES ON ONLINE NEWS COMMENTS IN VIVA.CO.ID

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mia Rizana ◽  
Sri Minda Murni ◽  
T. Thyrhaya Zein
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Online News ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political News ◽  
Reader Responses ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Taboo Words ◽  
Identity Markers

The objective of this study was to discover the realizations of impolite utterances used by the readers as their responses on online news comments in viva.co.id news site. The study was conducted by using qualitative descriptive which case study was used in order to describe the impolite readers responses in viva.co.id news site. The data of this study were words, phrases, clauses and sentences consist of impolite reader response on online news comments in viva.co.id which the data were taken from 22  titles of political news about Basuki Cahaya Purnama . The data were the reader’s utterances on online news comments in political news in order to find out the recurrence and the pattern of the data based on the problem of the study. It was found that impolite utterances were realized by online news readers through disinterested, unconcerned, unsymphatetic; inappropriate identity markers; abscure or secretive language; seek disagreement; taboo words; call the other names; frighten; condescend, scorn of ridicule; negative personalize; disassociate from others and insult. Keywords: Impolite Utterances, Realization of Impoliteness 

scholarly journals Conceptual Symbolic Narration in Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and The Waves from a Reader-response perspective

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Said Ahmed Aboudaif
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Functional Role ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Specific Interactions ◽  
Symbolic Language ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
Reader Responses ◽  
The Waves

This study examines conceptual, symbolic narration in Virginia Woolf’s; To The Lighthouse and The Waves. The study applies the reader-response critical approach to explain the significance of Woolf’s metaphoric narration in achieving specific interactions and meanings within her readers’ minds. Firstly, it sorts out symbolic language in the two novels to figure out how readers receive them. The analysis shows the heavy use of conceptualized symbolic language to achieve particular meanings and create thematic responses. Secondly, the study clarifies the effect of the conceptual, symbolic narration in revealing the technical aspects in the novels both at the literal meaning and at the symbolic meaning. Thus, the study aims at explaining how the conceptual, symbolic narration plays a functional role in achieving reader-responses to enhance thematic purposes and ideas intended by the writer.

scholarly journals Gereja Lintas Denominasi: Membaca Narasi Kekerasan dalam Yosua 8

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Daniel Kurniawan Listijabudi ◽  
Rena Sesaria Yudhita
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Reader Responses ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Reader Response Criticism

Abstract The concern of this article is the fact that the Bible, especially the Old Testament, contains accounts of violence. The book of Joshua chapter 8 is one of the best examples. This article uses the method of communitarian reading to interpret that text. The event where the LORD actively commands approves Joshua to do violence to humans and other creatures is an interesting research point. Learning from the academic discourse about violence, this article observes how several congregations read the biblical text which is full of violence through so-called reader responses criticism tabulated based on some spiritual-denominational values or theological premises within a communitarian reading of four churches (Mennonite, Pentecostal-Charismatic, Calvinist, and Catholic) in their clusters. Abstrak Penulisan dalam artikel ini secara kritis didasari oleh kenyataan bahwa teks-teks Alkitab khususnya di dalam Perjanjian Lama, memuat narasinarasi mengenai kekerasan. Salah satu contohnya adalah teks Yosua pasal 8, yang menjadi pusat pembacaan komunitarian dalam penelitian ini. Semakin menarik perhatian untuk diteliti bahwa di dalam teks-teks yang memuat narasi kekerasan tersebut, pihak Tuhan digambarkan merestui bahkan secara aktif memerintahkan umat-Nya (dalam hal ini bangsa Israel) untuk melakukan tindakan kekerasan kepada sesama manusia, maupun ciptaan yang lain. Berdasarkan hal itulah, maka setelah memertimbangkan diskursus kekerasan dari para ahli, penelitian ini mengobservasi bagaimana jemaat-jemaat membaca teksAlkitab yang memuat narasi kekerasan dengan menggunakan metode pembacaan respon pembaca (reader response criticism) yang ditabulasikan berdasarkan nilai-nilai spiritual denominasional dari empat gereja yangmewakili komunitas yang terpilih (Mennonite, Pantekostalit-Kharismatik, Calvinis, dan Katholik) di wilayah Yogyakarta melalui interaksi per cluster secara komunitarian.

scholarly journals A reader response method not just for ‘you’

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Bell ◽  
Astrid Ensslin ◽  
Isabelle van der Bom ◽  
Jen Smith
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Reader Responses ◽  
Cognitive Narratology ◽  
Textual Features ◽  
Response Method ◽  
First Time

This article contributes to empirical literary studies by offering a new reader response method for examining targeted textual features. With the aim of further establishing the new paradigm of reader response research in stylistics, we utilise a Likert scale – a tool that is usually used to generate data that is analysed quantitatively – to elicit qualitative data and, crucially, show how that data can be synthesised with an analysis of the primary text to provide empirically based conclusions relevant to particular textual features for cognitive narratology and stylistics. While we offer a new method that can be used to investigate textual features in all kinds of text, we exemplify our approach via the investigation of second-person narration in geniwate and Larsen’s digital fiction The Princess Murderer and provide a new understanding of the experiential nature of ambiguous forms of ‘you’ in fiction. Our stylistic analyses show how responses can be generated by linguistic features in the text. We then analyse reader responses to those examples and show that this can provide a more nuanced account of ‘you’ narratives than a stylistic analysis alone because it affords insight into how different readers do or do not psychologically project into and/or assume the role of ‘you’. Our results represent the first time that current typologies of the second person have been empirically tested and we are the first study to find an empirical basis for doubly deictic ‘you’. We therefore contribute a new empirically based understanding of how readers experience ambiguous forms of ‘you’ in fiction.

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