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Reader Response

Reader Response is a school of literary theory and hermeneutic approach that conceives the meaning and even completion of a text as constituted in the interpretive activity, experiences, and historically situated horizon of the reader rather than as fixed by authorial intention or intrinsic textual structure alone.

1.6K

Publications

87.5K

Citations

2.1K

Authors

528

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

130

Variants

Reader-response

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Publications

1.6K

Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities

Edward Proffitt, Stanley Fish · Journal of Aesthetic Education · 1983 · 3.6K citations

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Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature.

Cathy N. Davidson, Janice Radway · American Literature · 1985 · 2.9K citations

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The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response

Daniel T. O’Hara, Wolfgang Iser · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism · 1979 · 1.9K citations

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The Reader, the Text, the Poem: The Transactional Theory of the Literary Work

Alan C. Purves, Louise M. Rosenblatt · Journal of Aesthetic Education · 1980 · 1.8K citations

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Literature as Exploration

Walter Houston Clark, Louise M. Rosenblatt · Journal of Aesthetic Education · 1970 · 1.6K citations

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Authors

2.1K

  1. WI
    Wolfgang Iser

    University of Konstanz, Germany

    12 publications · 4.7K citations

    12

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  2. DS
    David S. Miall

    University of Alberta, Canada

    11 publications · 1.7K citations

    11

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  3. LM
    Louise M. Rosenblatt

    New York University, United States

    9 publications · 3.8K citations

    9

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  4. DK
    Don Kuiken

    University of Alberta, Canada

    7 publications · 1.3K citations

    7

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  5. RB
    Richard Beach

    University of Minnesota, United States

    6 publications · 298 citations

    6

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Institutions

528

  1. University of Alberta

    Edmonton, Canada

    15 h-index

    23 publications

    2.7K citations

  2. University of Nottingham

    Nottingham, United Kingdom

    10 h-index

    18 publications

    877 citations

  3. Texas A&M University

    College Station, United States

    8 h-index

    14 publications

    310 citations

  4. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    8 h-index

    12 publications

    889 citations

  5. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    7 h-index

    8 publications

    503 citations

  6. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    364 citations

  7. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    7 h-index

    22 publications

    538 citations

  8. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    7 h-index

    8 publications

    341 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 117 publications · 8.4K citations

    47

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  2. Poetics

    36 publications · 3.1K citations

    27

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  3. The Reading Teacher

    RT · 30 publications · 1.8K citations

    20

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  4. The Modern Language Review

    25 publications · 1.2K citations

    18

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