The Return of the Reader: Reader-response Criticism, and: Words About Words About Words: Theory, Criticism, and the Literary Text, and: The Myth of the Modern: A Study in British Literature and Criticism after 1850 (review)

1988 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 729-731
Author(s):  
William E. Cain
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
British Literature ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Reader Response Criticism

scholarly journals The Theme of Infidelity in Ajo Obi: A Reader Response Approach

2020 ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Chioma Magdaline Akaeze ◽  
Jacinta Ukamaka Eze ◽  
Juliana Ginika Mamah ◽  
Virginus Onyebuchi Aruah
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Reader Response ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Study ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Intensive Study ◽  
Its Analysis

Thematic study is an area in any literary study that cannot be easily overlooked. It is an area that cuts across the three major genres of literature. This paper examines the literary text Ajo Obi which is written by I.G. Nwaozuzu in form of drama with the view of studying the theme of infidelity as portrayed in the text. This work aims at showing the ambiguity of the claim of innocence by the accused in the text. It also brings to light how cultural divergence brings about different interpretations of an action. The data for this study are drawn from intensive study of the literary text Ajo Obi. Following a qualitative research paradigm the study adopts reader response approach in its analysis. Findings show that there is a kind of uncertainty in the claim of innocence by the accused in the text. Again cultural divergence is also found to bring about differences in interpretation of an action.

scholarly journals Developing Multi-Literacy Skills by Creating Graphic Story in Literature Class: A Project-Based Learning Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-95
Author(s):  
Rahmad Hidayat ◽  
Fajar Susanto
Keyword(s):  
Action Plan ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Literary Adaptation ◽  
Text Understanding ◽  
Literary Theories ◽  
Literature Class ◽  
Reader Response Criticism

The research aims to develop multi-literacy skills by creating a literary graphic story as a creative and innovative way for English Department students in learning literature. By creating an adaptation from text to picture, students are expected to improve their ability to understand literary works and express their creative and innovative skills. This is a qualitative study implementing the Project-based Learning (PBL) approach in literature class, which aims to produce graphic stories as the output of studying literature. Students do not only understand the literary theories but also make something out of their understanding. The scaffolding instruction method was employed to examine practices of improving multiliteracy skills. A detailed action research plan, including preliminary observation in the classroom, action plan, intervention, and guiding, is applied. The investigation related to the barriers in doing the project is going to be conducted as well. Reader Response criticism is introduced to students in the reading and analyzing stage as a useful method to develop their critical thinking in evaluating the literary works they read. We argue that the students improve their reading skills, writing skills and producing graphic story stories based on their own interpretation of the literary text, which is proven by the summary and conversation texts they produce in the graphic stories. They also develop their creativity by producing images and pictures as the result of the literary adaptation process. There are two significant outcomes of the project: developing literary text understanding as well as producing the original graphic story.

E-Literary Text and New Media Paratexts

2017 ◽  
pp. 186-203
Author(s):  
Janez Strehovec
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Reader Response ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Linguistic Comprehension ◽  
Bodily Activity ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Original Concept ◽  
Blog Posts

This chapter aims to explore the role of the hybrid reader-viewer-listener as the user of electronic literary projects that demand more complex interactions, including sophisticated ways to navigate. Rather than taking into account just the reader's role in decoding meaning and linguistic comprehension, the new-media-shaped literary text stimulates even more sophisticated reader response, addressing both software recognition and bodily activity. For such an approach, the use of new-media-shaped paratexts as the devices and practices that enable and facilitate one's orientation and navigation within new media contents is also essential. Interfaces, instructions, menus, statements, reviews, blog posts, and documentation belong to the new generation of paratexts, which broaden Genette's original concept relating to print-based literature.

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