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Thought |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Author-Centric | Pre-1920s | Author's life, intent, history | “What did the author mean?” | Let’s study Dickens’s life to understand his novels. |\n| Text-Centric | 1920s–\u003Cbr>1950s | The text itselfstructure & language | “What does the text say by itself?” | \u003Cbr>SHITA\u003Cbr>Forget the authoranalyze the irony and symbolism. |\n| Reader-Centric | 1960sonward | Reader’s role in making\u003Cbr>meaning | “What does the text mean tome/us?” | Each reader creates their own interpretation. |\n\nREADER RESPONSE THEORY  \n• Emerged in the 1960s–70s.  \n• Developed mainly in the United States and Germany.  \n• Influenced by thinkers like Derrida, Barthes, etc.  \n• A reaction against New Criticism and Formalism.  \n• Shift in Emphasis:  \n• From “What does the author mean?” to  \n• “How does the reader experience and interpret the text?”  \nDAK SH ITA SINGH  \nConcepts in Reader-Response Theory  \nDAK SH ITA SINGH  \nWolfgang Iser  \n• The reader is not merely a recipient but an active co-creator of the literary experience.  \n• The Two Poles of a Literary Work  \n• Iser distinguishes between:  \n• Artistic Pole  \n• Aesthetic Pole  \n• Reader as an Active Agent: Filling the Gaps  \n• Implied Reader vs. Actual Reader  \n• Implied Reader: A theoretical reader role embedded within the text, anticipated by the author’s structure.  \n• Actual Reader: The real-life reader who brings personal background, expectations, and context.  \n• The interaction between the two determines how the text is ultimately understood.  \nDAK SH ITA SINGH  \nHans Robert Jauss  \nReception Theory (Constance School, Germany)  \n• Shift in Focus  \nMoved attention from author and text to the reader’s historical and cultural context.  \nMeaning is shaped through the reception of texts over time.  \n• Horizon of Expectations (Erwartungshorizont)  \nEvery reader brings a set of expectations shaped by their cultural norms, past reading, and the literary conventions of their time.  \nA text either confirms, challenges, or reshapes these expectations.  \n• Fusion of Horizons  \nMeaning emerges when the reader’s horizon merges with the text’s perspective.  \nThis fusion can lead to traditional understanding or new interpretations.  \nDAK SH ITA SINGH  \nStanley Fish  \n• Affective Stylistics  \n• Meaning unfolds through the temporal experience of reading.  \n• Focuses on how meaning is made while reading, not just what is read.  \n• Denies fixed meaning  \n• Informed Reader: An ideal or competent reader who is aware of literary conventions, historical context, and language usage.  \n• Interpretive Communities: Groups of readers who share common interpretive strategies, values, and reading habits.  \n• There is no one correct meaning, but also no purely personal meaning, all interpretation is socially conditioned.  \nDAK SH ITA SINGH  \nDAK SH ITA SINGH  \nLouise Rosenblatt  \nTransactional Reader-Response Theory  \n• Emphasizes the 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