SO I don't necessarily want the author's death to be final... I want to resurect him because he is still important.
Death of the author, and the birth of the reader
However, I still think that the reader is very important and so the focus shall stay with the reader.
Literary criticism - reader response criticism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoBXGJCNVPg - to help intiial ideas
Rhetorical triangle.
text
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author <----> reader
Affects all ways
author certainly influencing text
text certainly influencing reader
-RRC reader has more influence on the text, and even the author than before imagined
MAJOR CLAIM: writing is a creative act
reading is also a creative act, play of imagination + intelligent
each reader brings new experiences, background, personal beliefs, influence perception of what was just read
create your own reader response
-what does it say (some interpretation)
-what does it mean (some personal background n beleifs)
-what does it matter? (put into own context)
-How do you identify with characters or situations?
-Try and imagine how I'd respond at different points in my life
EG, hamlet in prison
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New source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olFIaBgFIKA
Project Lit Crit: reader response criticism
interpreting a novel based on readers response.
If faretched, people aren't going to accept it...
WAIT this then means, something that IS plausible, would still obvioisly take note of the author and not completely kill them off wouldn't they? !!! This then wonderfully implies the need for context and a multiple wisdom of the crowd ideal.
-worried about the interaction between text + reader
- what a text is = what a text does
text is something on paper, FACTS, what it does, is how it affects the reader (emotions)
affective stylistics
Without a reader to AFFECT, text can have no meaning
no readers = no meaning
has to read the text to have meaning
determinacy vs indeterminacy
determinacy = facts of the text (characters colour hair, where they went etc)
in = 'gaps' can't put your finger on what happened there, what isn't written (LOTS IN PHOTOGRAPH!)
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next video source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfYDDD91Alw
limitations still exist, not every interpretation can be correct. YES
Not one set reading
not readers interpretation doesn't matter
not message set in stone
important people:
stanley fish
interpretive community
similar knowledge
wolfgang iser..
believed opposite, reading is subjective process
Hans robert charles
wrote "literary history as a challenge to literary theory"
readers compare literary works to other works (horizon of expectations)
focuses on artistic nature of a work
reconstruction of horizons
I A RICHARDS
difficulties of reading
lots of bias from the reader
Simon Johnson
www.thephilosophicalphotographer.co.uk
Reader Response research VIDEOS
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