In Our Time Reader Response

In our time leader 's response, "When I was sitting in the morning stern lake with my father' s rowing, I felt he never died" (19). The first four readings of "our time" seem to focus on the relationship between life and death indicated by life. After reading the first story, it must be very sincere to say that I do not think that I understand all the emphasis on the subject.

As a story of Rhodads and Michie, Mark shows that it is necessary to distinguish between "implicit readers" and "readers of the 1st century". "Implied reader" is a fictitious reader ("implicitly or implicitly, the ideal reaction experiences doubt or surprise or sympathy for a person at an appropriate time") (p. 137) . By contrast, "readers of the first century" is a "true reader", "When you write this book you see the world of the story in relation to events in the real world" (page 140).

The reader's reaction is a literary criticism school that ignores the author's content and sentences and limits analysis to the reader's specific work. Reader's reaction theorist pays special attention to traditional teaching methods. That means literary works have a specific interpretation. According to Louise Rosenblatt, one of the main characters of the reader's response, all reading is a transaction (represented by immutable text) between the reader and the author. In addition, whether the reader's "position" is "aesthetic" (by reading or entertainment reading) or "going out" (reading through homework or reading), great impact on the text experience I think.

In many cases, the criticism of the reader 's reaction will develop mainly on the phenomenon "reacting to reading". The theory identifies the reader as an important and active agent responsible for communicating the true meaning of the text through interpretation. Modern school of thought advocates existing literary ideas. According to this, literature is like an entertainment, allowing readers to create their own expressions related to text. It violates new criticism and other theories of formalism and completely ignores the role of the reader in reproducing meaning. New critics believe that there is only meaning in structure, form, content, or in the text. There is no appeal to the intention or authority of the author, nor is it taken into consideration of the reader's psychology. This single element is not focused on orthodox new critics