Iser, ''Readers and the Concept of the Implied Reader''

I'll answer your questions about reader-response with this (hopefully).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2009/02/my_second_crack_at_trying_to_u.html

After reading this text about Readers and Implied Readers, Which One Fits You?

The Best of Both Worlds (Minus Hannah Montana)
“The concept of the implied reader is therefore a textual structure anticipating the presence of a recipient, without necessarily defining him: this concept prestructures the role to be assumed by each recipient, and this holds true even when texts deliberately appear to ignore their possible recipient or actively exclude him. Thus the concept of the implied reader designates a network of response-inviting structures, which impel the reader to grasp the text” (Iser 145).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2009/02/the_best_of_both_worlds_minus.html

“But since this meaning is neither a given external reality nor a copy of an intended reader’s own world, it is something that has to be ideated by the mind of the reader. A reality that has no existence of its own can only come into being by the way of ideation, and so the structure of the text sets off a sequence of mental images which lead to the text translating itself into the reader’s consciousness.”
- From Wolfgang Iser’s “Reader-Response Criticism: Audience as Context” in Donald Keesey’s Context for Criticism, page 147
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2009/02/is_it_a_help_a_hindrance_or_ju.html

"The sacrifice of the real reader's own beliefs would mean the loss of the whole repertoire of historical norms and values, and this in turn would entail the loss of the tension which is a precondition for the processing and for the comprehension that follows it."

“Whenever the author turns into a reader of his own work, he must therefore revert to the code, which he had already recoded in his work” (142 Iser).

"Different meanings of the same text have emerged at differnt times, and indeed, the same text read a second time will have a differnt effect from that of its first reading." (Iser 142)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/2009/02/read-it-again-i.html

Reading Role
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JennaMiller/2009/02/reading-role.html

someone try to help me!
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/BethanyMerryman/2009/02/cultured.html

"...it constructs a world of its own out of the material available to it."

"...the implied reader as a concept has his roots firmly planted in the structure of the text; he is a construct and in no way to be identified with any real reader" (Iser 145).

For some reason, this blog and another one of mine still didn't post. The time on this blog will show that I had it completed by monday night just in case anyone is wondering. I don't know why some of blogs are connecting to the course website and some aren't. Sorry about that.

Just ignore the link above because its the wrong blog. This is the other blog that apparently didn't link. Once again, the time on the blog is before the deadlin Monday night....just in case anyone is wondering.

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