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Is Joab a Reader-Response Critic?
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 2002Throughout the David story, Joab is a complex and intriguing character. He frequently disregards or undermines the king’s authority, yet it is possible to argue that his actions are crucial for David’s hold on power to continue. A noticeable pattern of ‘interpretative license’ emerges when Joab’s conduct is analyzed through the numerous vicissitudes in
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THE WOOING OF THE WOMAN AT THE WELL: JESUS, THE READER AND READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM
Literature and Theology, 1987The history of the critical study of the Bible shows a time-honoured tradition of methodological borrowing and cross-fertilization from other disciplines. From historians biblical scholars have learned about history and they have adapted the tools of historical analysis to study events in the Bible.
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Reader-Response Criticism and Heart of Darkness
1996Students arc routinely asked in English courses for their reactions to the texts they arc reading. Sometimes there arc so many different reactions that wc may wonder whether everyone has read the same text. And some students respond so idiosyncratically to what they read that wc say their responses arc “totally off the wall.” This variety of response ...
Ross C. Murfin, Peter J. Rabinowitz
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Reader-response criticism: Reader, response and interpretation1
2019© 2019 Karadeniz Technical University. All rights reserved.Reader-response criticism is not a conceptually unified critical position. Its theory is instead associated with the work of critics who use the reading process and response to centralize the process of interpretation. The interpretive process delineates the author's attitude towards the reader,
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Reader-Response Criticism and Gulliver’s Travels
1995Students are routinely asked in English courses for their reactions to texts they are reading. Sometimes there are so many different reactions that we may wonder whether everyone has read the same text. And some students respond so idiosyncratically to what they read that we say their responses are “totally off the wall.”
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Reader-Response Criticism and The Turn of the Screw
1995Students are routinely asked in English courses for their reactions to texts they are reading. Sometimes there are so many different reactions that we may wonder whether everyone has read the same text. And some students respond so idiosyncratically to what they read that we say their responses are “totally off the wall.”
Henry James, Peter G. Beidler
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Oscar Wilde and Reader-Response Criticism
1993While his reputation as a dramatist has been steady, and interest in his life and personality has grown, Wilde the aesthetic theorist has remained a marginal figure within literary criticism. The dominant figures of the mainstream tradition have usually paid the critical positions generated by ‘aestheticism’ only grudging attention.
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Whatever Happened to Reader-Response Criticism?
2003Not long ago, as we met to compose questions for a PhD examination in literary theory, a colleague raised the question that has become our title. He raised it (somewhat) whimsically-as a query about institutional history, prompting the candidate to explain why reader-response criticism1 is rarely mentioned by that name in contemporary conversations.
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