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Reader-response criticism and recent readers*
2021Brittany N. Melton, Heath A. Thomas
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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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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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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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