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Phenomenology
Phenomenology is based on two fundamental assumptions. The first assumption is that the world is knowable and certainty exists through consciousness. The second assumption is that the human subject is central to all knowledge. Phenomenology lays down the foundation upon which Reader Response Criticism is founded.
Implied Reader
The implied reader is created by textual structures or devices that predispose us to read the text in certain ways.
Actual Reader
The actual reader is the real person who reads a text and whose reading is shaped by their own experiences, knowledge, values, and assumptions.
Interpretive Community
An interpretive community is a group of readers who share the same interpretive strategies or sets of assumptions. The terms and concepts you apply to a text are shaped by your interpretive community. How you judge the validity of any particular reading of a text will depend on the interpretive community to which you belong.
Subjective versus Objective Interpretation (Stanley Fish)
The meanings we attribute to a text will be neither subjective nor objective, yet at the same time, they are both. They are not objective, and therefore subjective, in that they are the result of a particular point of view, which is not universal; they are not subjective, and therefore objective, because that point of view is socially governed, “rather than individual or unique.”
Literary Work (Iser)
A good literary work should be interactive; readers should be involved in the process of a reading a text. A literary work should thwart and defy expectations through the process anticipation and retrospection, as well as yield new interpretations each time it is read.
Process of anticipation and retrospection (Iser)
The process of anticipation and retrospection involves constantly looking forward and making assumptions and expectations. As the reader continues to read, their initial understanding becomes blocked and their expectations are shattered; the reader is then forced to re-evaluate their expectations through retrospection. The process of anticipation and retrospection is an ongoing process, which forces the reader to participate in a continuous imaginative process.
Gaps (Iser)
According to Iser, gaps are “the points at which the reader is able to climb aboard the text.” Gaps are inconsistencies and ambiguities which present themselves throughout a text; the reader is expected to fill these gaps by actively engaging with the text in the reading process.
Blockage (Iser)
Blockage occurs when the expectations a reader has constructed through the process of anticipation become blocked. It is the axis upon which the reader pivots from anticipation to retrospection and back to anticipation.