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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Reader-response theory"”.
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WISE BLOOD THROUGH THE LENS OF READER RESPONSE THEORY
… While O’Connor is very rarely associated with reader response theory, its framework offers a way to more fully appreciate O’Connor as an author and <em>Wise Blood</em> as a novel while addressing aspects of critics’ confusion. The objective of this study is to consider a previously …
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Cultivating Literary Imagination, Developing Empathetic Understanding toward Others: Using Louise Rosenblatt's Reader Response Theory to Teach Literature to Eighth Graders in Southeast Georgia
… toward others through using Louise Rosenblatt's Reader Response Theory to teach literature to eighth graders in Southeast Georgia. Louise Rosenblatt's (1938/1995) reader response theory is the major theoretical framework, which is supported by John Dewey's (1938) theory of education and …
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Emily Dickinson's feminist response to Scripture as manifested in her poetry and correspondence.
… text (the methodology of today's feminist reader-response theory) to harmonize Scripture with her consideration for gender. By reading against the biblical text, Dickinson retained her belief in Scripture while she expounded in writing her interest in equity for women. With feminist …
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When Adults Talk in Circles: Book Groups and Contemporary Reading Practices
… to base expectations for club outcomes, extends reader response theory, and has professional implications for readers' advisors, literacy educators and sponsors of local and mass reading events.
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CARA (Child Abuse Risk Assessment): A Situated Evaluation of an Innovative Learning Environment
… was collected by means of a variety of probes. Reader-response theory, which seeks to understand the transaction between the reader, text, and context, guided the analysis of the data. Results showed that CARA was used in unique ways by each investigator to construct a flexible understanding of …
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Reader-response methodologies in the teaching of english literature in a second language class
… education of feelings and imagination; and the reader-response theory. Based mostly on Greene and Abbs this study regards literature education as an exploration, an experience and a vast landscape where individual readers attach meaning differently.
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The boundary between "us" and "them": readers and the non-English word in the fiction of Canadian Mennonite writers
… boundaries are permeable and unstable. Recent reader-response theory, which sees the reader as always influenced by a context, is central to this inquiry. Analysis of readers' responses in the form of questionnaires constitutes part of the support for my assertions, while an examination of …
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Through a glass darkly : an investigation of religious and moral values expressed in children's literature
… for discussion. Evaluation of the discipline of reader response theory integrates the theoretical and practical aspects of the study.
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Literature-Based Exploration: Efferent and Aeshtetic
… to be read and experienced as art through the reader's personal transaction with the text which focuses on one's own interest to create and understand the meaning. This paper examines sixth graders' responses to literature as they undergo reader response theory in the language arts classroom …
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Responses of four adolescent females to adolescent fiction with strong female characters
This study is an investigation of responses of four adolescent girls to the characters in two adolescent novels: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred Taylor; and Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson. The novels were chosen because the main characters are strong, independent young females, whose …
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The teller in the tale : aspects of narratorial voice in the novels of George Eliot
… how, through them, the narrator manoeuvres the reader into positions conducive to the "extension of sympathy" that Eliot wishes to inculcate in her readers, hoping, as she does, that sympathy aroused toward characters in the fictional world will, by extension, carry through to situations and …
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The Map of it All: Quantitative Mapping of Foreign Language in James Joyce's Ulysses
<p>Readers of James Joyce's Ulysses know that it is a cosmopolitan (multilingual) novel, but most do not know just how many foreign words Joyce used, altered, and inserted throughout the writing process, nor do they know the final tally in the 1922 Shakespeare & Co. edition. This dissertation …
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Ludological Storytelling and Unique Narrative Experiences in Silent Hill Downpour
… structure and what this might tell us about reader-response theory, participatory fandom, and culturally-specific methods of decoding.
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Situation comedy and the female audience : A study of 'The Mistress'.
… elements from feminist film and television theory, reader response theory, and Uses and Gratifications theory. A feminist perspective, systematised by an ethnographic account and feminist sociological principles, guided the qualitative methods of data collection from 14 individual and nine …
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Situation comedy and the female audience : a study of the mistress
… elements from feminist film and television theory, reader response theory, and Uses and Gratifications theory.</p> <p>A feminist perspective, systematised by an ethnographic account and feminist sociological principles, guided the qualitative methods of data collection from 14 individual and …
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Impediments to English literary competence: a case for English literature paper 2 in selected rural high schools in uMlalazi Circuit
… home language is IsiZulu. The Transactional reader-response theory provides the theoretical framework for this study. The study employed the Interpretivist (constructivist) research paradigm through a case study design. The study followed Qualitative research approach through semi-structured …
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Reading Ineffability and Realizing Tragedy in Stuart Moulthrop's <i>Victory Garden</i>
… Ruiging Liang. To date, critics and meta-readers have incorrectly assumed that the protagonist, Emily Runbird, becomes a fatality. By failing to read her life or death as undecidable, we deny the fiction its full power as a postmodern interpretive dilemma. This assumption plays into what …
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Powerful Print: Identifying the Influence of Narrative Reading over Student's Opinion Formation
… writing. It uses Louise Rosenblatt’s (1938) Reader Response Theory supported by Lev Vygotsky’s (1962) writings about the social dynamics of language development. Methodologically I followed the example of literature circles set forth by Janice Almasi and Linda Gambrell (1994, 1995).</p> …
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Henry James, Virginia Woolf, And Frank Lloyd Wright: Interiority, Consciousness, Time, And Space In The Modernist Novel And The Home
… of Frank Lloyd Wright. Using Joseph Frank's theory of spatial form, my work explores the similarities between Wright's designs of private residences with the design of space in the novel. All three artists, I argue, are working with spatial form, blending interior with exterior, to provide …
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