Reader Response.ppt

Reader Response Reader Response Different kinds of Readers -- implied reader, resisting reader, etc. -- Male Voyeurism Female Spectators -- Reading Internet Literature Three major theoretical approaches to Reading What is reading?  What is literary criticism? reading: reading outloud, memorizing, reading books as well as everything else (signs on the street, advertisement, toilet literature, our life, etc.), dialogue, re-creation; read and write our life literary criticism: appreciation, analysis (from different perspectives), (traditional: biographical studies, textual studies, history of idea approach, etc.) Different kinds of readers Different views on reading: New Crit.: The Affective Fallacy is a confusion between the poem and its results (what is it and what it does). Avoid subjective reading. But there are different kinds of texts and readings: Starting Questions How do we read actively? Different kinds of readers Actual Readers -- Can be Resisting Readers Feminist readings of traditional male canon. e.g. Barbara Kruger’s reading of images of women and consumer culture, Sally’s reading of the fairy-tales in “Bluebeard’s Egg” Marxist reading of text’s ideologies Critique of Jack London’s “Chinago” Disclosure of D. H. Lawrence’s ideological contradictions. Critique of the Romantic love in Titanic. (ideological components: love at first sight, rebellious youth, malicious opponent, lower class = natural and lively. Different kinds of readers: Female Spectators Implied Readers and Actual Readers e.g. 1: Who is the implied Reader? What position do women Take? Different kinds of readers Implied Readers and Actual Readers e.g. 2: Who is the implied Reader? What position do women Take? Different kinds of readers Implied Readers and Actual Readers e.g. 3: Who is the implied Reader? 網路文學的讀者 How has the Internet or the other Multimedia changed our reading or writing? Does Inte