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===Reader-Response Criticism===
===Reader-Response Criticism===
Reader-response criticism is a literary criticism that focuses on what texts do. These critics raise rhetorical questions that regard how the readers join in with the author in a way of being able to help the text have meaning. Instead of being an impressionistic free-for-all, subjective or legitimizing of all half-baked personal comments on a literary work. Instead, reader-response criticism is focused on finding the in the act of reading and looking at the ways readers or communities responses through examination of their individual experiences through texts. <ref> Delahyde, Michael [http://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/reader.crit.html Reader Response Criticism] Accessed July 10, 2014</ref><br />
Reader-response criticism is a literary criticism that focuses on what texts do. These critics raise rhetorical questions that regard how the readers join in with the author in a way of being able to help the text have meaning. Instead of being an impressionistic free-for-all, subjective or legitimizing of all half-baked personal comments on a literary work. Instead, reader-response criticism is focused on finding the in the act of reading and looking at the ways readers or communities responses through examination of their individual experiences through texts. <ref> Delahyde, Michael [http://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/reader.crit.html Reader Response Criticism] Accessed July 10, 2014</ref><br />
The works of authors Peter Rabinowitz’s ''Before Reading'', or Norman Holland’s ''The Dynamics of Literary Response'', are well known sources for expanding your understanding of Reader-Response Criticism.  Hans Robert Jauss’ ''Horizons for Reading'' is also another source for information on this type of literary criticism<ref>Brizee, Allen;Tompkins, J.Case [https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/722/ “Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism”]Accessed July 7, 2014</ref>.<br />
The works of authors Peter Rabinowitz’s "Before Reading, or Norman Holland’s The Dynamics of Literary Response", are well known sources for expanding your understanding of Reader-Response Criticism.  Hans Robert Jauss’ "Horizons for Reading" is also another source for information on this type of literary criticism<ref>Brizee, Allen;Tompkins, J.Case [https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/722/ “Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism”]Accessed July 7, 2014</ref>.<br />


===Structuralism/Semiotics===
===Structuralism/Semiotics===
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