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Amani Abdel Sabour Professor I.A.Ahmed Contemporary Literary Criticism 26 December 2007 Reader Response Criticism; A Comparative Study of Norman Holland and David Bleich Reader Response criticism is a general term that refers to different approaches of modern criticism and literary theory that focuses on the responses of readers and their reactions to the literary text. It also, in M.H Abrams' words, "does not designate any one critical theory, but a focus on the process of reading a literary text that is shared by many of the critical modes"(268). Reader Response criticism is described as a group of approaches to understanding literature that explicitly emphasize the reader's role in creating the meaning an experience of a literary work. It refers to a group of critics who study, not a literary work, but readers or audiences responding to that literary work. It has no single starting point. They seriously challenge the dominancy of the text-oriented theories such...

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