Explore: Reader Response Criticism

Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader (or "audience") and their experience of a literary work, in contrast

poststructuralism, deconstruction theory, New Testament narrative criticism, and reader-response theory. It has been credited with anticipating the insights

literary theory, primarily for having been one of the pioneers of reader-response criticism. Holland's writings have been translated into Chinese, Dutch,

Constance. He was married to Lore Iser. Iser is known for his reader-response criticism in literary theory. This theory began to evolve in 1967, while

relations between reader and text' – as with reader response criticism. Rollin writes that 'Holland's experiments in reader response theory suggest that

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the Bleich "heuristic", a reader-response approach to teaching literature. He is also a proponent of reader-response criticism to literature, advocating

scholar who has worked on canon formation, feminist literary criticism, and reader response criticism. She has also coined and developed the notion of cultural

post-colonialism, new historicism, deconstruction, reader-response criticism, narratology and psychoanalytic criticism. The different interpretive and epistemological

interpretations. Reader-response criticism developed in Germany and the United States as a reaction to New Criticism. It emphasises the reader's role in the