Reader-Response critics argue that readers play a significant role in determining a text's meaning. They disagree about the extent of this. Some argue that meaning inheres completely in the reader, while others insist that it resides in both text and reader.
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- Both the reader and text determine meaningPopularized by Louise M. Rosenblatt, this theory argues that the text and the reader make meaning together.
- A text's meaning depends solely on the reader's experience.Subjective reader-response critics argue that a reader's beliefs about and experience of a text determines meaning.