EN 1700 Lecture Notes - Reader-Response Criticism, Stanley Fish, Connotation
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Lecture 3 reader response theory sept 28. Writing ideas about authors helps to trigger association that will be useful for you. Not copyrighting, you learn something about structure. Need to know current issues are, need to know what"s already been said. Reading from one genre helps you to understand the general perspective. Writing and reading essential all writers influence other writers. Studies the interaction between the reader and the text (fiction, non-fiction, films, articles, magazines). It is not completed until the reader picks it up and reads it. The text is not alive until the reader reads it. No communication if it doesn"t have a reader. The meaning is not in the text, it is in interaction between text and reader. Writer gives a set of codes, symbols, plot-cues to the reader. Readers then take the cues and makes connections to gaps. Readers have to draw their knowledge in general, experiences, and world. Within the interaction, a meaning is negotiated.
