1. Reader Response Theory Chapter 2
CI Literature for Adolescents
Reader Response Theory Chapter 2
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2. Reader Response Theory
CI Literature for Adolescents
Reader Response Theory
READING IS:
TRANSACTIONAL
TEMPORAL
SOCIAL
CULTURAL
TRANSFORMATIONAL
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3. Reader Response Theory
CI Literature for Adolescents
Reader Response Theory
TRANSACTIONAL
A transaction between reader,
text,
others (including the author),
and social/cultural context
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4. Reader Response Theory
CI Literature for Adolescents
Reader Response Theory
Reader stance towards a text determines
how a text is read. (Rosenblatt, Langer)
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5. Reader Response Theory
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Reader Response Theory
Efferent stance
point driven,
looking for information, knowledge to use to act in the real world
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6. Reader Response Theory
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Reader Response Theory
Aesthetic stance
towards a horizon of possibilities,
for the (virtual) experience created while reading,
enabling contemplation of values
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Reader Response Theory
Efferent and Aesthetic stances exist on a
continuum.
Both can result in pleasure.
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8. Reader Response Theory
CI Literature for Adolescents
Reader Response Theory
TEMPORAL
an event in time
and across time
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9. Reader Response Theory
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Reader Response Theory
Evocation according to Langer
being out and stepping in
being in and moving through
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Reader Response Theory
Response according to Langer
being in and stepping out to think about life
stepping out and objectifying the experience
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Reader Response Theory
Aesthetic reading processes according
to Benton:
Anticipation and retrospection
Prediction
Confirmation
Disconfirmation
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Reader Response Theory
Picturing or imaging
creating mental images from words on the page
Interacting/projecting
social escape to aesthetic enchantment
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13. Reader Response Theory
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Reader Response Theory
Evaluating, or valuing of story
impetus to continue reading
Interrogating
questioning text to acquiescent acceptance
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14. Reader Response Theory
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Reader Response Theory
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL
Read in the company of others
Fish’s community of readers
Learn ways of taking from text
Do what we are required to do
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15. Reader Response Theory
CI Literature for Adolescents
Reader Response Theory
We are socially/culturally situated beings
Values
Attitudes
Authors are socially/culturally situated beings
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Reader Response Theory
TRANSFORMATIONAL
Engaged reading
Increase knowledge (efferent)
Develop values (aesthetic)
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17. Reader Response Theory
CI Literature for Adolescents
Reader Response Theory
GOALS FOR TEACHERS
According to Purves, Rogers, & Soter—and
others!
Develop readers
Read for pleasure and information
Read widely and deeply
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Reader Response Theory
Develop responsive readers
Engage with texts
Appropriate stance
Develop knowledgeable readers
About books
About their own responses
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Reader Response Theory
Develop literary understanding
How books work
Awareness of style
Awareness of family of literature
Develop critical readers
Awareness of social/cultural influences
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