Essay On Reader Response Criticism

Chapter 1

Introduction

Background Literature is very wide term that covers much kind of literary works. It can range from many pages of prose; novel and short story, two or more lines of poem and some pages of narration and dialogue of drama. Each of them is insight into the mind of the authors and reader’s perception in the different ways. For the most part, each literature must contains the elements in order to be able to relate the story to the readers, for example plot, setting, dialogue, audience, characterization and character. Characters are people, animal, plant or other imaginary creature that has responsible for the thoughts, plot and actions within a story. Characters are important because they are the intermediary of a literary work. Every character has his or her own personality which depends on author’s creation.

Characterization is the way in which a

Reader response criticism is one of the proper theory which explain the variation of human’s perception in decide thing. This theory focuses on the reader’s reaction after reading a text or a literary work. The reader-response criticism has some special interest for the readers because it can be define as the background category of the readers after reading the meaning of the literary criticism. The history of reader response appears in the late 1960s and the 1970s but the role of the reader or audience of a literary work or performance has been recognized since classical times (Habib, 2005, p. 708). There are many theorists who examine the theory of reader response itself. One of the theorists is Wolfgang Iser. His theory is Aesthetic response which focuses to explain the interaction between text, reader and reader’s interaction. He believes that there are blanks or gaps in every literary work and reader has a chance to fill it based on the reader’s