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READER RESPONSE

This criticism, associated mainly with Stanley Fish, is concerned with the experience of reading and the effect that a work has on its readers. The main concern of Reader-Response critics is the construction of meaning by individual readers of texts. Important terms are implied and ideal reader.

Major Critic: Stanley Fish

 

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