FROM THE TEXT TO THE READER: AN APPLICATION OF READER-RESPONSE THEORY TO ROBERT BROWNING’S MY LAST DUCHESS
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2020
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Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi
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Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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Reader-response criticism as a reaction against new criticism has changed the focus from the text to the reader. The reader is no longer deemed a passive agent, but active, participating in the meaning-making process, as reading is a process during which the reader also experiences what the characters experience and feels with him/her. In this respect, the text and the reader interact with each other. Meaning is accordingly created out of this interaction and transaction. A multiplicity of meanings, perspectives and interpretations becomes possible in the process of reading. Each reading of a literary text produces different interpretations. Social, religious, political, psychological and cultural contextual factors and background of the reader have a strong potential to influence the interpretation. Accordingly, the characteristics of the interpretive community are influential in meaning-making. This study will, therefore, discuss reader-response criticism with specific emphasis on Iser’s theory (the implied reader and repertoire) and apply the reader-response theory to Robert Browning’s poem, My Last Duchess.
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Reader-response theory, Robert Browning, poetry, literary criticism, My Last Duchess
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Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi
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7
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Atasoy, E . (2020). From the Text to the Reader: An Application of Reader-Response Theory to Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess . Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi , (7) , 196-209 . DOI: 10.46250/kulturder.828951
