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Showing 1 to 20 of 108 for “"reader-response"”.
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Cosmopolitanism in multicultural children’s texts and reader response
… for a continued exploration of students’ responses to multicultural texts. The current research involving multicultural texts describes how students may relate to characters that are culturally similar or dissimilar from themselves (Brooks, 2006). Adding a theoretical view of …
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Nonfiction and Fiction: Does Genre Influence Reader Response?
… theory of reading and its focus on the reader's efferent and aesthetic stances during transaction with nonfiction and fiction. The study explores the following questions: Does genre (nonfiction or fiction) influence the reader's response to a literarytext? Does a reader's process of …
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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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Gaming for Meaning: Video Games and Evolving Reader Response
… and their communities have something to teach reader response theorists. These theories already recognize readers as creators by acknowledging that their interpretations make meaning; however, these theorists are still struggling to determine the limits of reader interpretation. Norman Holland …
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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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A reader-response approach to the initial training of Maltese literature teachers
… study-unit over one academic year. Drawing on reader-response theories, and coupled with insights from reflective practice and assessment for learning, this study traces trajectories taken by student-teachers as they gradually move from a text- or subject-bound culture towards a more student- …
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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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Poststructural Explorations into Relations among Self, Language, Reader Response Theories: (Im)possibilities of Autobiographical Inquiry
… into relations between self and language among reader-response theories through the exploration of Derrida's concept of a relation between self and language. These explorations emerge from the idea of a "purity" of English that extends from the researcher's felt relations to English and to her …
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“Young Adult Books Don’t Realize They Have that Power”: Reader Response to Ideology in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
… purpose of this research is to find out how readers interact with novels in the Young Adult dystopian genre. I will examine the ways in which readers resist the dominant patriarchal ideological discourses in the YA dystopian novel and how readers submit to this ideology. Through an …
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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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We Do Not See Things as They Are. We See Them as We Are. Fictional Point of View and Reader Response: An Empirical Exploration.
… the findings of two empirical studies into readers' responses to fictional point of view. The impetus for the research came from my complementary studies in stylistics and Women's Studies. On the one hand, stylisticians often argued that the use of an internal perspective invariably elicited …
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What happens when parents and students engage in a collaborative book club?
… collaborative book club using various texts and reader response activities. The parents and students completed a pre and post survey describing their literacy interests and engagement. Parents read various books with their children. Both parent and their child discussed the stories through a blog …
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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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