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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 (1920s-present)''' <br />Two important theorists form the framework of structuralism are Charles Sanders Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure. ''Syntactic Structures'', written by Noam Chomsky, ''Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays'' by Northrop Frye, and ''The Elementary Structure of Kinship'' by [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] are good sources for better understanding on Structuralism<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 (1920s-present)''' <br /> | ||
Structuralism and semiotics are used to show readers see how works can be understood and give conventions that will enable readers to make sense of them. Through this type of literary criticism, there are specific rules, which include exposition, flashbacks, foreshadowing, syntax and diction. These rules are to help the reader convey how the work is put together to make a deeper meaning<ref> mmaurno [http://www.scribd.com/doc/18167893/Types-of-Literary-Criticism Types of Literary Criticism] Accessed July 8, 2014</ref>. <br /> | |||
Two important theorists form the framework of structuralism are Charles Sanders Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure. ''Syntactic Structures'', written by Noam Chomsky, ''Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays'' by Northrop Frye, and ''The Elementary Structure of Kinship'' by [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] are good sources for better understanding on Structuralism<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 /> | |||
'''New Historicism/Cultural Studies (1980s-present)''' <br />New Historicism has been studied and explored extensively in many works. Clifford Geertz’s ''The Interpretation of Cultures'' or Pierre Bourdieu’s ''Outline of a Theory of Practice'' are good places to start when researching important examples of New Historicism literature. Stephen Greenblatt, who coined the phrase “New Historicism”, wrote ''The Power of Forms in the English Renaissance'', another good source for information on this form 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 /> | '''New Historicism/Cultural Studies (1980s-present)''' <br />New Historicism has been studied and explored extensively in many works. Clifford Geertz’s ''The Interpretation of Cultures'' or Pierre Bourdieu’s ''Outline of a Theory of Practice'' are good places to start when researching important examples of New Historicism literature. Stephen Greenblatt, who coined the phrase “New Historicism”, wrote ''The Power of Forms in the English Renaissance'', another good source for information on this form 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 /> | ||
'''Post-Structuralism/Deconstruction (1966-present)'''<br /> | '''Post-Structuralism/Deconstruction (1966-present)'''<br /> | ||