Reader-Response Theory is a school of literary theory that defines the meaning and even the textual reality of a literary work as constituted in the active interpretive activity of the reader, rather than as a fixed property of the author’s intention or the text’s formal features.
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Literary Theory: An Introduction
Terry Eagleton · Poetics Today · 1984 · 2.1K citations
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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Surface Reading: An Introduction
Stephen Best, Sharon Marcus · Representations · 2009 · 1.7K citations · Full text
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University of Alberta
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
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University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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The Ohio State University
Columbus, United States
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Mitchell Institute
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Utrecht University
Utrecht, The Netherlands
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