Keesey, Ch 3 (Introduction)

What do you think?

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

Click here if you know the difference between formalism and reader-response.

OR

Is Keesey saying that every person can have a reliable response, but it is when the text supports that response that it is reader-response.

Click here if you know the difference between formalism and reader-response.

OR

Is Keesey saying that every person can have a reliable response, but it is when the text supports that response that it is reader-response.

If a Poem is Beyond Our Reach, Then How is the Human Mind Any Better?
“Assuming, as both critics do, that the poem as independent object is beyond our reach, they argue with some force that no other focus is really available. Even so, the wary reader may wonder why their extreme skepticism about our ability to understand poetic objects should seem so relaxed when it comes to our ability to understand perceiving subjects. For in such studies, readers must become, in turn, perceived objects, and objects quite as complex as poems” (Keesey 137).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2009/02/if_a_poem_is_beyond_our_reach.html

"The real purpose of art is to answer the human need for an intelligible and satisfying vision of the universe and our place within it and to answer as well our many other psychic wants, few of which can be met by scientific truth or the brute facts of experience" (Keesey 132).

Is Reader-Response Criticism One School or Four?
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2009/02/is_reader-response_criticism_o.html

Is Reader-Response Criticism One School or Four?
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2009/02/is_reader-response_criticism_o.html

Okay, so for the reader-response critic there are two main perspectives to consider, the actual reader or the hypothetical reader.

Such a TEASE!!!
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/BethanyMerryman/2009/02/however-defined.html

Keesey, Ch 3

“ Unarmed readers may believe they are responding to the surface level, but they are really being affected by the underlying patterns of archetypal symbolism.” (131)

Keesey, Ch 3

“ Unarmed readers may believe they are responding to the surface level, but they are really being affected by the underlying patterns of archetypal symbolism.” (131)

"Actual readers, who may lack implied reader's master of the appropriate conventions and who may lack the important textual cues, will be more likely to minterpret the text and to produce readings" (Keesey 135)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/2009/02/contradiction-i.html

"Actual readers, who may lack implied reader's master of the appropriate conventions and who may lack the important textual cues, will be more likely to minterpret the text and to produce readings" (Keesey 135)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/2009/02/contradiction-i.html

Help! So what is exactly is reader-response?
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JennaMiller/2009/02/help-so-what-is-exactly-is-rea.html

Help! So what is exactly is reader-response?
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JennaMiller/2009/02/help-so-what-is-exactly-is-rea.html

Help! So what is exactly is reader-response?
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JennaMiller/2009/02/help-so-what-is-exactly-is-rea.html

Help! So what exactly is reader-response?
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JennaMiller/2009/02/help-so-what-is-exactly-is-rea.html

"...the images and actions that haunt our dreams and that form the substance of our psychic lives."

"...the images and actions that haunt our dreams and that form the substance of our psychic lives."

"...the images and actions that haunt our dreams and that form the substance of our psychic lives."

"I think it worth noting that there exists an intimate interaction between readers and writers in and through which each defines for the other what s/he is about" (Kolodny 196).

"I think it worth noting that there exists an intimate interaction between readers and writers in and through which each defines for the other what s/he is about" (Kolodny 196).

"I think it worth noting that there exists an intimate interaction between readers and writers in and through which each defines for the other what s/he is about" (Kolodny 196).

"I think it worth noting that there exists an intimate interaction between readers and writers in and through which each defines for the other what s/he is about" (Kolodny 196).

The answerless question?

The answerless question?
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EllenEinsporn/2009/02/the_answerless_question.html

The answerless question?
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EllenEinsporn/2009/02/the_answerless_question.html

Art par excellence
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/QuinnKerno/2009/02/reader-response.html