READERRESPONSE
CRITICISM
What is
Historical
Criticism?
Task 1: Recall a story/Movie that you had
read/watch. Answer the questions below:
1.What is it all about?
2.What did you like or
disklike about it?
3.What is the theme?
4.What is the author’s
purpose of writing it?
Reader-Response Criticism
Literature may be judged according
to how the reader perceives it instead
of what the author intends. The text
itself has no meaning until it is read
by a reader. The reader creates the
meaning.
Reader-Response Criticism
Analysis of the reader’s role in the
production of meaning makes
someone’s reading a function of
personal identity. It recognizes that
different people view works differently
and that people’s interpretations
change over time.
Reader-Response Criticism
• “Typically, Reader-response criticism
revolves around the phenomena
‘Respond to Reading’.
• The theory identifies the reader as a
significant and active agent who is
responsible to impart the real meaning of
the text by interpreting it
Reader-Response Criticism
•Literature is like a performing art
that enables reader creates his
own text-related unique
performance.” (“A Brief Guide to
Reader-Response Criticism.” A Research
Guide for Students, August 22, 2018).
Purpose:
ReaderResponse
Theory
•Examine
•Explain
•Defend
•Critique
Questions to ask for Reader-Response Criticism:
1.How does the author provide information or
details to make the story seem realistic?
2.What real-life people or events are you
reminded of by the characters or events in the
story? Explain why.
3.Why do you think the author wrote this story?
Questions to ask for Reader-Response
Criticism:
4.Why you like or dislike the
text?
5.Do you agree or disagree with
the author? Why or why not?
6.What is text’s purpose?
Task 2: Rearrange the scrambled letters
to find the word that completes each
consideration for Reader-Response
Criticism.
1. SLFAW in the plot
2. The theme and USEOPRP of the
text
3. Explain what you KILE or don’t
like in the text
4. Explain why you agree or disagree
with the writer’s REPSPCEIVTE
Task 3: Give words related to Historical
and Reader-Response Criticism
Task 4: List down 3 questions about the Reader-Response
approach and provide the answers based on the story. Use
the table:
Your Question
1.
2.
3.
Your answer (In Paragraph
form)