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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Reader-response criticism."”.
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A reader-response approach to Susan Sontag's Death Kit
<p>I did not come to reader-response criticism because I understood it to be of importance to my critical methodology; it was, instead, suggested to me, and as I seemed to be in need of a label to lend legitimacy and focus to my reading of Death Kit, I latched on to it. As an approach to reading, …
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Battling Words: an Alternative Reading of C.S. Lewis' Til We Have Faces
… alternative readings. Through a combination of reader-response criticism and deconstruction, this thesis argues that Lewis intentionally subverted the expectorations of evangelical fan base by establishing the internal tension of certain binaries and then suggesting their inability to be …
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The Reception of the Works of Contemporary Chinese Glam-Writers in Mainland China
… constituencies: literary critics, actual women readers, and participants on the glam-writers’ personal blogs. Drawing in part on western reception theory and reader-response criticism, this thesis focuses on the role of the reader in reading and interpreting the glam-writers’ works and makes an …
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Player-Response: On the Nature of Interactive Narratives as Literature
… of media lack. When examined from the lens of reader-response criticism, this interaction deepens even further, acknowledging the player’s experience as a valid interpretation of a video game’s plot. The wide freedom of choice available to players, in terms of both play and story, in 2007’s …
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Censoring allegorical texts: interpreting Orwell and Miller
… own interpretations are replicable for other readers, and censor accordingly. Beginning with an exploration of the varieties of literary censorship affecting both primary texts, the thesis then moves on to a discussion of current literature concerning the fields of both allegory and …
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Reading V.S. Naipaul : fiction and history 1967-1987
… his work. This thesis is concerned with the way readers process the two types of narrative, with special reference to historical writing and the novel. After a brief introductory survey of Naipaul's writing to date, chapter 1 explores some of the philosophical and historical issues underlying a …
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Literature as intervention : challenging normativity in the writing of Elisabeth Reichart, Charlotte Roche and Elfriede Jelinek
… not just with textual analysis but also with reader-response criticism, I make use of an innovative theoretical framework which allows me to outline how literature can expose and destabilise harmful gender norms. For this matter, I interrogate Reichart’s, Roche’s and Jelinek’s highly …
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Thus have I read: the place of reading in the practice of Buddhism
… Interpretative strategies have been informed by reader-response criticism, aesthetics of reception, narratology, and reception theory. Content analysis of Facebook posts and Goodreads reviews has been employed to analyse recent individual responses to Buddhist literature.<br/><br/>Results: A …
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Reading for democratic citizenship: A new model for readers’ advisory
Readers’ advisors are tasked with suggesting leisure reading materials to library patrons. The current discourse within the field has it that these advisors ought to adhere to (what I am calling) a pure preference satisfaction model wherein they aim to satisfy readers’ existing preferences without …
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Reader-Reported Influences on a Fifth Grader's Transaction With Extended Text
… to investigate the question of what goes on in a reader's mind as she transacts with extended text. It was a case study with one respondent, a ten year old girl. She reported, in writing, her thoughts during teacher read aloud, subsequent silent reading of the same text, and group discussions …
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Byzantine monastic libraries in the eleventh and twelfth centuries
… such centres.<br/> <br/>Chapter 3 focuses on the readers. Literacy as an aspect of human communication is discussed. Conclusions are then contextualised in a specifically Byzantine historical framework with a consideration of representation of reading in monastic texts. The act of reading is …
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Reordering The Old Order : a woman's response to Porter's Miranda stories.
… the process through which she goes. A female reader of the texts reexamines Miranda's discoveries, recognizes their significance, and identifies with these personal identity searches in a way that traditional critics have not. As contemporary feminist reader-response criticism proposes, often …
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Die Funktion der Atlantis-Rezeption in J. R. R. Tolkiens Númenor zwischen Empirie und Phantasie
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) ist mit seinem Mittelerde-Komplex einer der erfolgreichsten und wirkungsmächtigsten Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts und begründete mit seinem Schaffen die moderne Fantasy-Literatur. Zunächst von Leserinnen und Lesern immer wieder deutend als Allegorie des Zweiten …