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"The true writer is the reader", (Eagleton). To what extent, if at all, do you agree with Eagleton's statement.
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"The true writer is the reader", (Eagleton). To what extent, if at all, do you agree with Eagleton's statement. This essay will be focusing on the central tenets of reception theory, which led to Eagleton's statement "The true writer is the reader" and will also evaluate the significance of this statement for the practice of literary criticism Reception theory, sometimes called 'reception aesthetics' or 'reader response' is a recent development, which began in Germany, in the late 1960s, in a climate of literary change and general social unrest. The theory is based on the conviction of the centrality of the reader's role in determining meaning. This was a significant shift of attention to the reader from a preoccupation with the author, in the nineteenth century (Romanticism) and an isolated concern with the text (New Criticism). The doctrine is founded on liberal humanist ideology: a belief that in reading, a reader should...
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