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Towards a Culturally Situated Reader Response Theory

Children's Literature in Education, 2012
This article describes a theory of how culture enables literary interpretations of texts. We begin with a brief overview of the reader response field. From there, we introduce the theory and provide illustrative participant data examples. These data examples illustrate the four cultural positions middle grade students in our research assumed when ...
Wanda Brooks, Susan Browne
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The Reception of Reader-Response Theory

College Composition & Communication, 2005
This essay offers a historical explanation for the place of reader-response theory in English studies. Reader-response was a part of two movements: the (elitist) theory boom of the 1970s and the (populist) political movements of the 1960s and 1970s. If the theory boom was to remain elitist, it had to deauthorize reader-response.
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Reader response and reception theory

2015
Interviews and focus groups provide contextualization of human behavior that allows researchers to understand the meaning of that behavior. The central purpose of both methods is the generation of data on lived experiences and on the meaning which individuals or groups under investigation derive from them. Research using interviews and focus groups for
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Snapshots: Transcending Bias through Reader-Response Theory

English Journal, 2004
“Snapshots” offers insights about teaching and learning through teacher stories about a particular classroom event.
Theoni Soublis, Erik Winkler
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Reader-response theories, theoretical anxieties : validating interpretations in some reader-response theories

1999
Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.
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Reader response theory and the problem of meaning

Publishing Research Quarterly, 1992
If we accept the idea that the literary experience lies in the mind of the reader, in the transaction between the reader and the book, then teachers must adjust their instructional goals and teaching practices. The curriculum must also be reconceived to deal with this approach to literature, particularly in the selection of texts.
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Reader-Response Theory - Reply

Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1986
Marshall W. Alcorn, Mark Bracher
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Reader-Response Theory as Antidote to Controversy: Teaching The Bluest Eye

English Journal, 1993
The continual, if usually dormant, threat of censorship poses one of the most hair-raising problems for any high-school English teacher, not only because of the moral obligation to support freedom of speech as one of the tenets of our profession, but also because the more controversial (and therefore more likely to be censored) a work is, the more able
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MAIN APPROACHES OF THE READER-RESPONSE THEORY

This article discusses peculiarities of the reader response theory within the main approaches of it. The literary text, reader and interpreting the text being the key notions  of the theory are studied within the approaches mentioned in the article.
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Reader-Response Theory: Example of The Little Black Fish

2020
This study explored the readers’s responses by using a literacy text named “The Little Black Fish” (Kucuk Kara Balik). The present study employed a holistic single case design approach among the case study patterns was adopted. Participants of the study were selected by purposive sampling method and the sample consisted of 65 fifth grade students.
KANIK UYSAL, Pınar, ATEŞ, Seyit
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