[The Theory of Signs and the Role of the Reader]: Response

1981 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Rudolf E. Kuenzli
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Role Of The Reader

scholarly journals Engaging EFL students with literature: An Algerian perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-92
Author(s):  
Mohammed Kheladi
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Teaching Literature ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Role Of The Reader

The objective of the present paper is to argue for the necessity of engaging students with literature in the Algerian EFL context. It attempts to show that the interface between language and literature is conducive to learning potentials for students at the different levels of language and literary studies. On this basis and in response to the inadequacies of the traditional transmissive approach to teaching literature in the Algerian context, which have been reported in the findings of many investigative studies, the paper suggests the shift towards a process-oriented approach to teaching literature that is fundamentally task- based. It also acknowledges the role of the reader response stance in sustaining students’ engagement with the literary text by drawing on their own experiences and thinking skills in meaning making. Keywords: Engagement, EFL classroom, literature, process approach, traditional approach, task-based, reader response.

scholarly journals Horizon of Expectation on Popular Lyrical Poetry: Jauss’s Reader Response Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-69
Author(s):  
Alfa Ghifari ◽  
Budi Tri Santosa ◽  
Diana Hardiyanti
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Lyrical Poetry ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Role Of The Reader ◽  
Elegant Form

Humans have various opinions in commenting on a literary work. This diversity of opinions will eventually participate in developing research in the literary world. Lyrics are a medium for an author to convey the message he wants to convey in a more free and elegant form. This study aims to describe the reader's perception of the messages and values contained in the lyrics of Rebel's Girl from Bikini Kill, Beyonce from Partition, and God Is a Woman from Ariana Grande. This study uses Jauss' theory of the Harapan Horizon where the role of the reader is the main key in conducting an investigation of a literary work. This research is a qualitative descriptive literature research using a questionnaire distributed to readers who are used as respondents. Respondents were selected randomly with the aim of knowing the differences in opinion of each respondent in responding to a literary work. The conclusion of this study is that the various opinions obtained are influenced by the diversity of backgrounds of the respondents such as differences in gender, age, level of education and experience. In addition, there are messages obtained by readers through the lyrics, namely; freedom of speech, feminism, inner beauty, and sex education.

scholarly journals A Critical Controversy: Reader-Response Theoreticians Opposing New Critics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alanoud Abdulaziz Alghanem
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Active Agent ◽  
Postmodern Theory ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Ontological Approach ◽  
Objective Theory ◽  
New Critics ◽  
Reader Response Criticism ◽  
Role Of The Reader

The present study is theoretically oriented proposing to re-read some major tenets of the New Critics and the reader-response critics in an attempt to reconsider the objective theory of the New Critics to test whether it is sufficient in catering for all aspects of a text. It works via the exploration of both protocols set by a number of the major founders of both theories aiming to reveal the oppositions, commonalities as well as undeclared similarities. The critical controversy will thus be brought to light, in a bid to point out the shortcomings of each approach. Throughout this exploration, the study demonstrates that the ontological approach of the New Critics becomes incomplete and doubtful. It proves that the New Critics’ ‘affective fallacy’ has sprouted the postmodern theory of the reader-response criticism where the reader is no longer a passive recipient, but an active agent who fills in the blanks and formulates meanings. Thus, the study concludes by proving that there are some commonalities between the New Critics and the Reader-response adherents highlighting the triumph of the latter in undermining the New Critics’ objectivity. The significance of the study lies in adopting the reader-response approach per se in the re-reading of the New Critics’ doctrines where the researcher comes up with new findings that testifies the crucial role of the reader/researcher in the production of new interpretations. The study concludes with some recommendations for further use.

scholarly journals A Critical Controversy: Reader-Response Theoreticians Opposing New Critics

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-57
Author(s):  
Alanoud Abdulaziz Alghanem
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Active Agent ◽  
Postmodern Theory ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Ontological Approach ◽  
Objective Theory ◽  
New Critics ◽  
Reader Response Criticism ◽  
Role Of The Reader

The present study is theoretically oriented proposing to re-read some major tenets of the New Critics and the reader-response critics in an attempt to reconsider the objective theory of the New Critics to test whether it is sufficient in catering for all aspects of a text. It works via the exploration of both protocols set by a number of the major founders of both theories aiming to reveal the oppositions, commonalities as well as undeclared similarities. The critical controversy will thus be brought to light, in a bid to point out the shortcomings of each approach. Throughout this exploration, the study demonstrates that the ontological approach of the New Critics becomes incomplete and doubtful. It proves that the New Critics’ ‘affective fallacy’ has sprouted the postmodern theory of the reader-response criticism where the reader is no longer a passive recipient, but an active agent who fills in the blanks and formulates meanings. Thus, the study concludes by proving that there are some commonalities between the New Critics and the Reader-response adherents highlighting the triumph of the latter in undermining the New Critics’ objectivity. The significance of the study lies in adopting the reader-response approach per se in the re-reading of the New Critics’ doctrines where the researcher comes up with new findings that testifies the crucial role of the reader/researcher in the production of new interpretations. The study concludes with some recommendations for further use.

Narratology

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Genevieve Liveley
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
Reception History ◽  
First Century ◽  
Unreliable Narrator ◽  
Affect And Cognition ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ars Poetica

This book explores the extraordinary contribution that classical poetics has made to twentieth- and twenty-first-century theories of narrative. Its aim is not to argue that modern narratologies simply present ‘old wine in new wineskins’, but to identify the diachronic affinities shared between ancient and modern stories about storytelling, recognizing that modern narratologists bring particular expertise to bear upon ancient literary theory and offer valuable insights into the interpretation of some notoriously difficult texts. By interrogating ancient and modern narratologies through the mutually imbricating dynamics of their reception it aims to arrive at a better understanding of both. Each chapter selects a key moment in the history of narratology on which to focus, zooming in from an overview of significant phases to look at core theories and texts—from the Russian formalists, Chicago school neo-Aristotelians, through the prestructuralists, structuralists, and poststructuralists, to the latest unnatural and antimimetic narratologists. The reception history that thus unfolds offers some remarkable plot twists. It unmasks Plato as an unreliable narrator and theorist, and offers a rare glimpse of Aristotle putting narrative theory into practice in the role of storyteller in his work On Poets. In Horace’s Ars Poetica and in the works of ancient scholia critics and commentators it locates a rhetorically conceived poetics and a sophisticated reader-response-based narratology evincing a keen interest in audience affect and cognition—and anticipating the cognitive turn in narratology’s mot recent postclassical phase.

THE ROLE OF THE READER IN THE HEPTAMÉRON

1989 ◽  
Vol XLIII (3) ◽  
pp. 271-278
Author(s):  
MARY J. BAKER
Keyword(s):  
Role Of The Reader
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