Title: Reader Oriented Criticism

Subject: A good man is hard to find

Date: 22,03,24

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• Main Ideas
• Key words
• Questions that connect points
• Important points

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<aside> ✏️ Notes:

Rose as a Symbol*

1. A common flower
2. Good fragrance
3. Usually symbolizes Prophet in Ottoman

• Aesthetic is the readers view
• Textual meaning and Authorial meaning
• Text is changeable and readers also changeable
• Different readers lives in different ages
• You can’t change the text but you can change yourself

• Romanticism → Author
• New criticsim → Text
• Reader oriented → Reader
• Autotelic artifact?
• Reader’s emotional response to a text
• Paradigm shift?
• Transactional experience?
• Efferently aesthetically?
• Black car in the story Deaths car
• Reader + Text = Poem (Meaning)
• The cat jumps on the driver and they had an accident. Grandmother did not want the cat in the car and accident happen.

• Hypocrisy
• Misfit
• if a snake bit him and he shot three times- Color of the car as the idea of death- Misfit as a Jesus?-
• Red- Black- Yellow-
• Wearing yellow?
• White rose- black rose- red rose- yellow rose?
• Narratology and narratee
• Who is the real reader, the virtual reader and the ideal reader?
• Absolute subjectivism “our own mental actity is the only questionable fact of our experience”
• identity theme
• intepretive community; different colour means different to different communities
• Affective stylistics or reception aesthetics
• Implied reader- actual reader
• Forestructure?
• There is no ultimate objectivity

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<aside> 📎 Summary:

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In literary theory, the concepts of the real reader, the virtual reader, and the ideal reader are used to describe different ways of understanding the relationship between the reader and the text:

1. Real Reader: The real reader is the actual person who is reading the text. This individual brings their own experiences, knowledge, and interpretations to the text1.
2. Virtual Reader: The virtual reader is the reader that the author imagines they are writing to. This could be a specific demographic, a general audience, or even an individual. The virtual reader is bestowed with certain qualities, faculties, and inclinations according to the author’s opinion of people in general (or in particular) and according to the obligations the author feels should be respected1.
3. Ideal Reader: The ideal reader is one who would understand perfectly and would approve entirely of the least of the author’s words, the most subtle of his intentions1. This is the reader who fully understands and appreciates all the nuances, themes, and techniques the author has employed1.

Remember, these are theoretical constructs used to analyze and discuss literature. They do not necessarily correspond to actual individuals. The same real reader might be the ideal reader for one text but not for another, and the author’s concept of the virtual reader might not align with the real readers who end up engaging with the text1.

The Implied Reader and the Actual Reader are concepts used in literary theory to understand the relationship between the reader and the text:

1. Implied Reader: This is a hypothetical figure who is likely to get most of what the author intended1. The implied reader is the image of the recipient that the author had while writing or the author’s image of the recipient that is fixed and objectified in the text by specific indexical signs2. The implied reader is embodied in the way in which text structures responses, in the form of a network of schemata, patterns, points of view, and indeterminacies that require and constrain interpretation1.
2. Actual Reader: The actual reader is the person who actually picks up the book, poem, etc., and makes their way through the text3. This individual brings their own experiences, knowledge, and interpretations to the text4. The actual reader might find the text too complicated to understand or too boring to keep their attention3.

Remember, these are theoretical constructs used to analyze and discuss literature. They do not necessarily correspond to actual individuals. The same real reader might be the ideal reader for one text but not for another, and the author’s concept of the virtual reader might not align with the real readers who end up engaging with the text5.