2. a literary criticism that focuses primarily on
the reader's reaction to a text

3. Postmodern Criticism Reader Response
 The structure of the  The structure
sentence is doesn’t create the
unstable. meaning.
 Can not trust  One must interpret
language as the the language of
truth. the text.

4. Formalism Reader-Response
 The structure of the  The reader creates
text helps the meaning of the
determine text.
meaning.  The reader
 Form is meaning. determines the
meaning.

5.  Pudd’nhead Wilson
› Can be interpreted as:
 Tom was who he was because
of his upbringing.
 Tom was a cruel master because
he was from a black family.

6.  This theory allows for a book to have
multiple meanings depending on the
reader.
 I would teach this if I was a professor.

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