4. Theoretical Assumption
Literature is a per formative art and each
reading is a performance.
The literary text possess no fixed and final
meaning literary meaning is created by the
interaction of the text and reader
Reader is not passive but active
Role of reader cannot be ignored
5. Salient features
Acknowledged importance of text and reader
Text relationship with reader
Reader is 3rd party
Reality exist in readers mind
Work is fully created when readers assimilate it
Text has not one inherent meaning but it
depend on individual interpretation.
6. Types of responses
Initial emotional response
Interpretive
Analysis
Question
Summary
Arguing with author
Inter textuality
7. Text Identity
Imaginative literature is lived by reader
2 time reading of single text produces
great insight in the reader mind
Text alone is nothing as a unit but it
completes is identity after the reader
interpretation
8. Types of Reading
Aesthetic
Afferent
Aesthetic reading for pleasure
emotional focus literature.
Efferent reading for information
telephone book history text.
In reader response theory reading
must be aesthetic rather than
afferent.
9. Kinds of Meaning in a Text
Determinate
Indeterminate
Determinate basically the facts in the
text
Indeterminate are the “gaps” in the
text which is filled by readers
In RR theory, indeterminate meaning are
more focus
10. Kinds of Reader
Implied Reader
Actual Reader
Implied reader finds out the
determinate meaning of the text
Actual reader fills the gap in the text
and find out the indeterminate meaning of
the text
11. Techniques of Reading
Reader extracts the meaning through
Experiencing
Hypothesizing
Exploring
Synthesizing
12. Benefits
Broaden the horizon of mind
Multiple interpretation
Cultural study
Encourage the students to make
interpretations
13. Continued….
Dependence on the teachers is discouraged
Students trust on their own Responses
Students ability of responsibility and
authority is increased
Personal responses are valued
Help reader to become better critical
reader
14. limitations
Not every interpretation may be valid.
Students can also go beyond the
interpretation levels.
Students can also disagree and argue with
each others interpretations.
16. Comparison
Reader Response Method Traditional Method
Enhance Ideas
Student dependent
Student become
tolerant
Produces multiple
interpretation
Better critical reader
Single idea
Teacher dependent
Teacher biasness
Discourages
enhancements of
ideas
No practice of mind
17. Conclusion
Reader response theory is the best theory
which makes the reader and students to be
active and to analysis a text by their own
ways it achieved great importance in 19th
century and for students and teacher it is
the most reliable method of studying and
teaching