Reader-response theorists contend that ultimately a reader has a role in creating a text.
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1. Reader-response theorists contend that, ultimately, a reader has a role in creating a text. What do you think a reader’s role is in creating a text?
2. Some of the problems of reader-response theory include questions such as:
Does only the reader create a text?
Does an author have nothing to do with it?
Which readers are we talking about to create a “reader-response” text (the “ideal” reader, the “lowest-common denominator” reader, a community of readers, or some other kind of reader)?
Which experience of a reader are we talking about: the initial experience of reading a work, the latest experience of reading a work, or some other experience of a reader?
Pick one of these problems and discuss your answer to it or position on it.
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