Using Comprehension Questions and Reader-Response Strategies with Second-Semester University Spanish Students [PDF]
Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature, 2017 For most of the 20th century, literary criticism has focused on uncovering the author’s intended meanings of a given text. In contrast, reader-response theorists have concentrated on the role of the reader in literary interpretation. This article details
Brian Hibbs
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Affective Resistance to Sirach’s Androcentric Presentation of a Daughter’s Body [PDF]
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, 2022 This article concentrates on the affective impacts of the relationship between the bodies of the father and his daughter in Sirach. It relies on gender studies as well as affect theory to explore how intensities pass from body to body in the biblical ...
Sébastien Doane
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A cruel and pointless trick? False non-closure in Horace’s Odes
Dictynna, 2023 Some scholars argue that only a change of metre signals the beginning of a new poem in Horace’s Odes. Woodman has objected that, if this were the case, the juxtaposition of poems in the third and second asclepiadic metres, which begin with the same two ...
Robert Cowan
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Students' responses to "The Gift of the Magi" and imaginative re-creations
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022 Research has thus far shown that students' interest and active involvement are pivotal in the language learning process. However, there is a paucity of research examining how an English literary text can be exploited to bolster student engagement in an ...
Muhammad Rifqi +3 more
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The Power of 'Wonder' by R. J. Palacio to Trigger Young Readers’ Emotionally Literate Responses
Linguaculture, 2021 Readers’ emotions are naturally blended with their cognitive abilities in the transaction with literary texts. From the perspective of emotional intelligence, an emotionally literate reader will be able to read beyond the surface of the text and make ...
Raluca Ștefania Pelin
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Gendering Sarai: Reading Beyond Cisnormativity in Genesis 11:29–12:20 and 20:1–18
Open Theology, 2020 This article explores the way assumptions about gender prevalent in twenty-first century readers impact our understanding of Sarai. It interrogates the way a mere glimpse allows us to instantaneously assign a person gender, something trans theorist Julia
Henderson-Merrygold Jo
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Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2023 Literature has become one of the major concerns of EFL classes. It is now regarded as one of the authentic resources that can be used in the language classroom along with other resources.
Hazha Salih Hassan +2 more
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Aging reimagined: Exploring older women’s attitudes to aging through reader response [PDF]
, 2011 This article is available open access through the publisher’s website through the link below. Copyright @ 2011 The Author.Since the 1970s, concern with questions of reception within literary studies has been, at best, sporadic.
Morrison, J
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Patterns of cognitive dissonance in readers’ engagement with characters
Enthymema, 2013 Leon Festinger’s account of cognitive dissonance, published in 1957, has become one of the most successful theories in the history of social psychology.
Marco Caracciolo
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The application of reader-response theory to teach symbolism in literature class for EFL students
Journal of Research on English and Language Learning, 2020 For years, scholars believed one effective approach that can be used in teaching literature in EFL context is reader-response approach yet very limited study can be found about the application of reader-response theory in teaching symbolism.
Putri Rindu Kinasih
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