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Abstract
This dissertation elucidates Reader-response criticism by placing one
critic, Stanley Fish, in the context of three others --Wolfgang Iser,
an Holland, and David Bleich. They are examined in terms of their
ibutions to a concept of the text in relation to the reader’s process of
”prehension. Despite the arguments among them about the location of
ing __in the reader, in the relation between the text and the reader, or in
.•interpretive community -- they all identify literary meaning with the
riential activity that every interpreter must undergo. Meaning is
rated within a framework established by the interactive participation of
reader with the text. Similarities as well as differences are found among
er-response critics. The differences between them lie in the degree of
s they place on the reader, the text, and the relationship between the text
Reader-response criticism has received increased attention in the last
de. It is regarded as a revolution in literary critical thought which has
brought about by the weakness in New Critical theory. Rejecting the
ective fallacy” of American New Criticism, Reader-response critics are
rested in the reading process, the interaction of reader to text. They all