Reader-Response and Rhetorical Tradition

 

Required Resources

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Lynn. 8. (2011). Texts and contexts: Writing about literature with critical theory. (6th.
ed.)Boston, Mk Pearson Education.

Chapter Three – Unifying the Work: New Criticism

Chapter Four – Creating the Text: Reader-Response Criticism

Lynn explains on pg. 69 that “Reader-response in all its variety is closely related to
the study of rhetoric” (2011). What is rhetoric? How does the comparison to rhetoric
help illuminate the reader-response perspective and how it diverges from New
Criticism? Do you find this explanation of reader-response helps you understand the
theory better? Or does it add to the complexity of the mode for you?

Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly
resources, and properly cite any references.