Reader Response Activity (Blog Post #8)

Today, your goal is to explore the Reader Response Critical Approach through a text of your choosing. This text might be a short story, a music video, a short Youtube film, an informational article, an opinion column, song lyrics, etc. Make sure that the text you choose has literary value. Find a text that tells a story or personal narrative. 

The first part of the assignment is to read the text through at least once. While you are reading, be mindful of what you are thinking during the reading. Record your ideas on a word document: connections you draw to other stories, experiences you’ve had in life, other characters you’ve known, etc.

Next, use your ideas to write 2 paragraphs that define both the “actual reader” and “implied reader” reader of your chosen text. Who was the the author’s implied reader? What experiences and connections did you bring to the text that enhanced the work?

Finally, there are critics of Reader Response Criticism. Do you believe it is important to consider the reader when it comes to interacting with texts? Why or why not? Use examples from your life to back up your response. 

Blog Post #7: "The Social Network"

Blog Post #7: "The Social Network"

For this next exploration of critical approaches, we will be exploring multiple perspectives, approaches, and texts in order to give you more options to how you approach the texts, which texts you approach, and from what angle you approach the texts. For this assignment, you will be asked to complete one blog post  that addresses one of the new critical approaches (Feminist, Marxist) and one of the old critical approaches (Philosophical/Moral, Psychological) in conjunction with the film. We will be showing “The Social Network” in class over the next few days. Please write a 3-5 paragraph blog response regarding these approaches and texts.