Literary Criticism 1

According to Reader Response Criticism meaning is created when_______ meet.

• Reader and writer

• Text and writer

• Text and reader

• All of them

Term "Horizons of Expectations" was coined by

• Walter Gibson

• Hans Robert

• Norman Holland

• IA Richards

According to Reader Response Theory a text is universal

• True

• False

Who is an implied reader?

• Reader who is reading the book

• A reader who is in the mind of the writer while writing

• A reader who criticizes the book

• A reader who explains the text

Who gave the concept of Interpretive Communities?

• Stanley Fish

• Louise Rosenblatt

• Hans Robert

• Norman Holland

Transactional analysis explains that

• Meaning is produced through knowing the writer

• Meaning is produced through analysis

• Meaning is produced through knowing the background of the writer

• Meaning is produced through a process of reading

A reader who examines recurring themes and motifs that reveal a writer's essential being

• True critic

• Geneva critic

• Analyzer

• None of them

What was IA Richards' contribution in Reader Response Theory?

• He asked his students at cambridge to write responses to short stories

• He asked his students at cambridge to read about lives of writers of that era

• He asked his students at cambridge to write responses to short poems

• He asked his students at cambridge to write main themes of selected novels

How did Walter Gibson and Wayne Booth contribute to Reader Response Theory?

• They raised questions about implied readers

• They raised questions about roles readers play

• They raised questions about writers' motifs and perspectives

• They raised questions about horizons of expectations

What does reception theory do ?

• It asks the reader to read the works of a particular era

• It asks the critic to examine the public's response to works of a particular era.

• It asks the critic to analyze the authors of current era

• None of them