Reader Response Criticism.

For our critical discourse aspect of this class, my group which is comprised of: Julian, Freddy, Nicole and I, we are doing the reader response criticism. I find this a very interesting topic because instead of focusing on the author's background to add literary value to a piece of work, it really focuses on the reader and his or her own experiences. Such factors as the reader's: class, gender, ethnicity could affect the way they look at a given piece of literature. A pretty good analogy of this method is the old saying: whether a tree falling in a forest makes a sound if no one is around to hear it. A book sitting on an old shelf does nothing. It really comes to life when the reader chooses to pick it up. Some theorists involved in reader response criticism are David Bleich, Jonathan Culler, Stanley Fish, Walker Gibson, Norman N. Holland, Wolfgang Iser, Walter Benn Michaels, Georges Poulet, Gerald Prince, and Michael Riffaterre.

Reader Response links:
1. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-reader-response-criticism.htm
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reader-response_criticism
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Iser
4. http://www.cnr.edu/home/bmcmanus/readercrit.html
5. http://www.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/reader.crit.html
6. http://www.xenos.org/essays/litthry4.htm
7. http://www.ualberta.ca/~dmiall/FORMALSM.HTM
8. http://www.stthomasu.ca/~hunt/reader.htm
9. http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/rr.php
10. http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2316
11. http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~scctr/Wellek/iser/index.html
12. http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/wyrick/DEBCLASS/iser.htm
13. http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0302/Iser_int.htm
14. http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/iser/
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