Deconstructing ’Aesthetic Response’ in Small-Group Discussions about Literature: A Possible Solution to the “Aesthetic Response” Dilemma

Abstract

Anna Soter and colleagues push the response to literature limits by first exploring; expressive response to account for readers’ personal connection to literature and offering a “third space” that; any reader might make at different times and for different reasons.’ This third space causes us to reconsider the work that aesthetic response has been doing all along in responses readers make to literature.