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The document discusses reader response criticism, which focuses on the reader's experience and interpretation of a text rather than the author or content. It emphasizes how each reader constructs their own unique understanding. Common aspects to consider in reader response include the interaction between reader and text and how the text shapes the reading experience. Examples provided analyze themes in Beowulf and 'A Rose for Emily'.

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EAPP Group 8

The document discusses reader response criticism, which focuses on the reader's experience and interpretation of a text rather than the author or content. It emphasizes how each reader constructs their own unique understanding. Common aspects to consider in reader response include the interaction between reader and text and how the text shapes the reading experience. Examples provided analyze themes in Beowulf and 'A Rose for Emily'.

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Reader

Response
Criticism
What is Reader Response Criticism?

• Reader Response is an approach that stresses the importance of the role of


the reader in constructing the meaning of a work of literature.
• It focuses on the reader and their experience of a literary work, in contrast
to other schools and theories that focus attention primarily on the author or
the content and form of the work.
• It is also a specific kind of essay that asks you as a reader to engage
critically with an assigned text.
• It argues that literature should be viewed as a performing art in which each
reader creates their own, possibly unique, text-related performance.
• Reader Response is an approach
that aims to examine, explain, and
defend your personal reaction in a
Purpose of text.
Reader • Is to emphasize the importance of
Response the reader's relationship to the text.
• In order for an author to achieve
their intended purpose when writing
a text, a reader must engage with and
react to what has been written.
• Response are follows, interaction,
Common aspect and between the reader.
to consider • Visual in enhancing and changing
meaning.
• It is important to consider the way
a text cultivates a specific reading
experience for its reader.
Examples of a
Reader
Response
The Story of Beowulf
By: Ernest J. B. Kirtlan
Without having done much research into the text of Beowulf, there were a couple of
main themes that stood out to me. One theme that stood out was the idea of absolute
and religious evil. In this text, the evil that exists, and more specifically the villains,
do not evoke much it any sympathy in the intended audience. As a modern reader, it
is hard to separate myself from these villains, especially Grendel and Grendel's
Mother, because they have human characteristics such as the ability to speak.
However, their descriptions are hideous, describing Grendel as a beast and
his mother as a hag. Furthermore, they are said to be direct descendants of Cane, or
more accurately, spawn of the evil in which he created. They are truly demons, and
therefore, from an Anglo-saxon perspective, pure evil without any redeeming
qualities. I believe that it is safe to say that we are supposed to feel nothing but
satisfaction as Beowulf defeats these monsters. We even see how the gaps between
humans, such as geographical and nationalistic borders, are physically and
symbolically gapped for the purpose of defeating true evil. This unity is proof of
man
and God's suneriority to the devil and his spawn.
A Rose for Emily

Connecting to Emily I can feel how painful it is to lose somebody that was cared
about. People go through a sense of refutation, and it doesn't feel real. In case of
Miss Emily she didn't accept her father's death. Everyone believes that she was
acting normally and no one considers her crazy. It is one thing to grieve & hold
onto a person in your heart but to physically keeping body in home is insane.
Emily was left alone & hopeless as her father was the only person she had. Also,
her lover wanted to leave her made things much harder on Miss Emily. Emily just
pretended it wasn't real. If I were in that position I would have acted the same way.
I wouldn't have accepted it. Facing the facts is the hardest part but denial is the one
thing that will ruin a person. "A Rose for Emily" also holds a hidden message
about change. Emily tries so hard to hold on to the past, which is destroying her. To
prevent things from changing Emily kills him. She is so scared of change and
being lonely and in the result she turns to murder to stop it from happening. The
moral of this story is that everyone needs to accept change. Miss Emily refused to
accept change. She didn't accept it because she doesn't like.
Guide Questions

1. What do you personally think about the text or story?


2. Do you have an experience just like the story ?What do
you learn from it?
3. Do you also felt the way the characters in the story
feels?
4. What personal qualities or characteristics do you have
that might be relevant on reading the story?
5. What are the words or phrases that is important to you?
Why?
True or FalseF
• Reader response do not focus on the reader and their experience of a
literary work.
• Reader response is an approach that stresses the importance of the
role of the reader in constructing the meaning of a work of literature.
• Reader response emphasize the importance of the readers relationship
to the text.
• Reader response is an approach that aims to examine, explain and
defend your personal reaction in the text.
• Reader response is a kind of sentence that asks you as a reader to
engage critically with an assigned text.
ANSWER
• FALSE
• TRUE
• TRUE
• TRUE
• FALSE
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