The Individual, Historical, and Collective Readership From Deconstruction to Reader's Response Criticism

Yurong Wu

doi:10.47297/wspctWSP2515-470205.20230702

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The Individual, Historical, and Collective Readership From Deconstruction to Reader's Response Criticism

Volume 7, Issue 2

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The Individual, Historical, and Collective Readership From Deconstruction to Reader's Response Criticism
The Individual, Historical, and Collective Readership From Deconstruction to Reader's Response Criticism
Phd candidate in the School of Foreign Languages, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, R.P. China
Vol. 7, Issue 2, Pages: 56-63(2023)
Published： 30 December 2023 ，
DOI：10.47297/wspctWSP2515-470205.20230702
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Wu Yurong.The Individual, Historical, and Collective Readership From Deconstruction to Reader's Response Criticism[J].Critical Theory,2023,07(02):56-63. DOI： 10.47297/wspctWSP2515-470205.20230702.

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Abstract

Readers spawned by Deconstruction and Reader's Response Criticism have an unstoppable subversive spirit

bringing complexity and disorder to the postmodern textual world. However

the subjectivity of reader has multiple aspects. They are not only individualistic

but also who communicate with the text as well as who are closely connected with history and collective ideas. This paper discusses the four-dimensional identity of readers including the textual

personal

historical and collective perspectives. The very complexity of readers' identity

and also the constant reconstruction of it during the act of reading provides a possible path to form a community for literary reading.

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SubjectivityDeconstructionReader's response criticismIdentity

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