The Gentle Giant

Blog Carnival Entry: Favorite Type of Criticism

Karissa posted this topic for the Blog Carnival Entry:

"in-depth info. on any of the specific crit. styles we've studied so far--your personal take on whichever one you want"

So far, after the first couple of weeks, I truly feel that the most recent criticism, the reader-response criticism, is the most influential to me. I wrote my paper last year on the Chaucerian Reader and his relationship to Chaucer's literary works, and how influential his works are to the reader. Also, I discussed how important the reader's judgments were to the literature, because they bring in their own individual stereotypes, or class classifications (haha), into the literature. I think that it is important the reader-response criticism is important, because we are all readers, and each of us, elementary or professional, have our own response or interpretation to the literature. This entire class is based because of reader-response criticisms, because we have our own thoughts and responses, which lead us to make judgments and assumptions about the poem, the literature, the author, the history, or the semiotics behind the literature. It is all because of the reader-response criticism.