Exam prep instructions
EXAM PREP BLOG INSTRUCTIONS
Each week I will post 5 terms that have been discussed in our course. You are responsible for writing responses for 2 of them (ie. 2 per week). Write your responses as if you were writing the answers for an exam. Post your responses in the comments section under the appropriate term. Please try to have your responses posted before your tutorial begins on Monday/Tuesday.
If you cannot access the comments section to post your response, you must email me and I will send you an invite to the blog.
Participating in this exercise will account for 30% of your final participation grade. I will be posting 5 terms/week over the next 6 weeks, so by posting an adequate response for 2 terms will earn you 5%/week.
If you have any questions, please email me at jhandreae@gmail.com
This exam prep exercise in no way guarantees that all or any of these terms will appear on the final exam. You are responsible for familiarizing yourself will all of the terms relevant to this course.
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ReplyDeleteReader Response Theory maintains its focus on the reader rather than on the author's content of his/her work. It essentially empowers the reader and allows the author to consider different readers when reading their own works. It asks to study the interaction between reader and text, in most cases pieces of print. And leads the basic assumption that text is incomplete until it is read. Meaning is therefore negotiated between reader and text, depending on interpretation there is never a neutral response. Different people bring different responses to texts, and these responses are more or less based on social experiences, and/or personal culture. This is crucial to the construction of meaning and interpretation. Two ways of interpretation include the denotative and connotative meaning. Denotative meaning the literal, and connotative meaning the associated interpretations. In John Berger's Ways of Seeing, he analyzes the ways men and women differ culturally, and socially, leaving it upon to the individual to decipher his/her thoughts concerning gender. The reader then takes into consideration personal experiences based on their gender and how it relates or differs form their own life.
ReplyDeleteThroughout all course readings, it comes down to personal preference, and experience, on how the reader will take the context. Everyone shares different personal views, however novels such as 1984 and Brave New World both try to present a common response after reading it. Which would be to create a sense of fear or disgust. Depending on the text, and authors intent, the reader bases most of their response through experience, and culture.
Reader Response Theory maintains its focus on the reader rather than on the author's content of his/her work. It essentially empowers the reader and allows the author to consider different readers when reading their own works. It asks to study the interaction between reader and text, in most cases pieces of print. And leads the basic assumption that text is incomplete until it is read. Meaning is therefore negotiated between reader and text, depending on interpretation there is never a neutral response. Different people bring different responses to texts, and these responses are more or less based on social experiences, and/or personal culture. This is crucial to the construction of meaning and interpretation. Two ways of interpretation include the denotative and connotative meaning. Denotative meaning the literal, and connotative meaning the associated interpretations. In John Berger's Ways of Seeing, he analyzes the ways men and women differ culturally, and socially, leaving it upon to the individual to decipher his/her thoughts concerning gender. The reader then takes into consideration personal experiences based on their gender and how it relates or differs form their own life.
ReplyDeleteThroughout all course readings, it comes down to personal preference, and experience, on how the reader will take the context. Everyone shares different personal views, however novels such as 1984 and Brave New World both try to present a common response after reading it. Which would be to create a sense of fear or disgust. Depending on the text, and authors intent, the reader bases most of their response through experience, and culture.
Reader response theory was part of a popularizing movement that made headway in the 60's. This theory empowers readers, while centering around them and their interpretation of meanings, allowing them to question why they responded a certain way to a text. Reader response theory assumes that meaning is not fixed, meaning it is derived between the readers and the text. Therefore, nothing is neutral, and it all depends on one's interpretation. Different people have different responses to texts based on personal, cultural and social contexts and experiences. This theory promotes active, dynamic and complex reading, where readers make predictions and revise them as they proceed (recursive reading).
ReplyDeleteReader response theory is a literary theory that refers to the written aspect of a piece of literature as opposed to a media text. It focuses on how readers react to a certain work. Every reader has their own unique approach to a text and there are countless ways of interpreting different texts. There is no standard method of reading since every individual has a unique method. Reader reader response theory looks at the interactions between the text and the reader. Meaning is created and negotiated between the text and the reader interacting with each other. The author of the text encodes a message and the reader decodes the message in the text through their own personal approach. Reading is recursive and not linear so it impossible to have one standard form of reading. Two additional aspects of reader response theory are connotation and denotation. Connotation refers to the personal interpretation or associative meanings of a text. Denotation refers to the dictionary definition or accepted norm of a certain idea, term or text. Connotation and denotation change based on culture, upbringing and experience. Due to this, many texts are interpreted differently. There is not a specific example of reader response theory, however in terms of this course it refers to each students personal interpretation of a text based on their culture and experiences.
ReplyDeleteReader Response Theory is a general set of reading theories. It aims so show that everyone has a different sense of reading. That whatever a reader reads a specific reader will decode a text differently from anyone else. An individual reader will decode a text differently from anyone else because they have different morals and values and also have grown up differently culturally as well. Reader Response Theory is a literary theory and that means it can sometimes be hard to understand. Except Reader Response Theory asks that you learn to pay attention to what it is you are reading and to think about where it comes from. Thinking about where the text comes from also delves a bit into Intertextuality and how texts are interconnected with shared ideas and examples. An interesting part of Reader Response Theory is that is says that when you come back to a text you’ve read when you were younger. You have gone through many more things and experiences. Meaning that when you go to pick up that book again you decode it differently. You have different context and you have more things to compare and connect to the novel or text because you have read more and experienced more things. Reader Response Theory states that the reader is the one who creates the meaning of a text. Because when a writer writes with encoded messages the decoder decodes it the way they want and know how to. Taking meaning out of the words a writer has wrote and decoding it the way they see fit.
ReplyDeleteReader response theory is a general set of theories that refer to the way that we read. It essentially states that everyone has a different way of reading a book. The perception of the reading comes from their sets of experiences. There is no standard way to read a novel, reading and perception of content is subjective. This literary theory empowers readers by telling them there is no wrong way to read and also empowers reading. This theory focuses on the interaction between the reader and the text. A basic assumption this theory makes is that a text is not complete until it is read and the meaning is negotiated. A question this theory poses is how do readers negotiate meaning? The way that readers perceive meanings of texts is, essentially, from their looking glass and is dependant on the life that they have lived and their experiences and the outlook they have. This theory encourages both reading and writing more critically to negotiate meaning. When writing, it gets you to think about your audience and the different ways that your text can be perceived. The reader creates their own meaning of a text. This theory supports the claim that all reading and writing is recursive, not linear. The same reader can come back to the same text years later and perceive a different meaning from it because their life experiences have increased and changed.
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