Posts tagged “reader-response theory”

  1. So Are We Just Not Going To Talk About How In 2001 Both Bridget Jones’ Diary And Legally Blonde Had A Pivotal Scene Where The Protagonist Was Tricked Into Attending A Non-Costume Party In A Playboy Bunny Costume

    ByDaniel Mallory Ortberg

    in Movies

    Because I feel like it's been fifteen years and we've NEVER had that conversation as a society. How did we just let that slide?

    Case In Point Of A:

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  2. Joe Manganiello Read The Fountainhead And His Takeaway Was That People Should Quit Their Jobs To Work In Quarries

    ByDaniel Mallory Ortberg

    in Ayn Rand Rewrites

    Joe Manganiello is living proof that the reader-response theory is the truest form of literary criticism. Reader-response theorists share two beliefs: 1) that the role of the reader cannot be omitted from our understanding of literature and 2) that readers do not passively consume the meaning presented to them by an objective literary text; rather they actively make the meaning they find in literature" (154). In this way, reader-response theory shares common ground with…

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