LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The reader fills in the gaps imposed by an author’s intention.
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The reader is sublimated beneath the author.
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The reader is less important than the author’s context.
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All of the above answers are correct.
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Detailed explanation-1: -MCQ: How does Wolfgang Iser envision the reader ? The reader fills in the gaps imposed by an author’s intention. The reader is sublimated beneath the author.
Detailed explanation-2: -Iser’s theory suggests that the space left for the reader is unintentional, but in fact many writers have deliberately pushed the gap, forcing readers to consciously interact with the text, becoming more aware of themselves, and that they are creating something beyond what is on the page.
Detailed explanation-3: -Iser claims that all texts create gaps or blanks which the reader must use her or his imagination to fill. It is in the interaction between text and reader that aesthetic response is created. The meaning of the text is never self-formulated; the reader must act upon the textual material in order to produce meaning.
Detailed explanation-4: -Wolfgang Iser in his essay ‘The Reading Process-a phenomenological approach’ talks about how a text stays a text and doesn’t become a literary work until someone reads it. He talks about several parts of a work that remain blank until a reader comes into scene and makes the literary work continuous and alive.
Detailed explanation-5: -Wolfgang Iser’s Reception Theory: Reader response theory emphasizes the idea that meaning of a literary work is the result of an interaction between the text and the reader, as “an effect to be experienced”, not an “object to be defined” (Iser, 1978, 10).