literary criticism

poem’s definition by Rosenblatt

result of an event happening during reading where text and the reader produce a new creaton => poem = aesthetic transaction

new criticism problem?

make passive reader that doesn’t bring her experiences and emotion in the text analysis

rhetorical criticism

how authors shapes reader’s ex[erience and persuade them by techniques and strategies and devices

autotelic artifact

text is made by human and has a meaning on it’s own

rosenblatt 2 readers

efferant(new info) and aesthetic reader (experience the text)

reader oriented criticism

readers read the same text but interpret it in their own uniqye ways and can be differing and contradicting. reader + text = meaning and there is no unified body for this criticism

rosenblatt

reader and text together creat meaning. they transactional behaviour towards eachother create meaning and it’s a transactional experience. millions of interpretations are possible. reader brings to the text her experiences feelings past memories present concerns and physical condition to read the text