{"product_id":"reader-response-criticism-on-charles-baxters-gryphon-von-jane-vetter","title":"Reader response criticism on Charles Baxter's \"Gryphon\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, Coastal Georgia Community College, Brunswick, Georgia, USA (Coastal Georgia Community College, Brunswick, Georgia, USA), language: English, abstract: Reader-response criticism is a modern way of analyzing and interpreting literature with\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eemphasis on the reader and not on the author or the text. As defined in The Columbia Dictionary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism, reader-response criticism shifts ¿critical attention\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom the inherent, objective characteristics of the text to the engagement of the reader with the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etext and the production of textual meaning by the reader.¿ One of the most influential readerresponse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecritics, Louise Rosenblatt, informs the reader that previous, historical forms of literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecriticism primarily focused either on literature as a reflector of reality or ¿the relationship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebetween the poet and his work.¿ Rosenblatt explains that critics perceived the reader as a passive\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erecipient, outshone by the author and the text; the reader became invisible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the 1960s, as stated in The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCriticism, the school of reader-response criticism has formed, and, as Peter Rabinowitz,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprofessor and chair of Competitive Literature at Hamilton College, illustrates, ¿became\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erecognized as a distinct critical movement [¿], when it found a particularly congenial political\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eclimate in the growing anti-authoritarianism within the academy.¿ Then, most notably in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnited States, the civil rights movement started, leading citizens to plead freedom, individuality,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand nonconformity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640188215\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640188215","offer_id":39423916114013,"sku":"9783640188215","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/83380f52-31a6-4c4a-befd-af0a038371b2.jpg?v=1777611172","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/reader-response-criticism-on-charles-baxters-gryphon-von-jane-vetter","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}