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 participates in a transaction with the text.
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The reader is acted upon by the text.
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The reader acts upon the text.
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All of the above answers are correct.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Rosenblatt’s (1938, 1978) reader response theory stresses the importance of the reader in making meaning from a text. The basic premise of reader response is that readers breathe life into texts through their prior knowledge and personal experiences (Larson, 2009).
Detailed explanation-2: -For Derrida, ‘there is nothing outside of the text’. In the original French, Derrida wrote: ‘Il n’y a pas de hors-texte’ [There is no outside-text]. Language is a constant movement of differences and everything acquires the instability and ambiguity inherent in language (Callinicos 2004).
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer. Explanation: In literary theory, formalism refers to critical approaches that analyze, interpret, or evaluate the inherent features of a text.
Detailed explanation-4: -Like Formalist critics, New Critics focused their attention on the variety and degree of certain literary devices, specifically metaphor, irony, tension, and paradox. The New Critics emphasized “close reading” as a way to engage with a text, and paid close attention to the interactions between form and meaning.