The Individual, Historical, and Collective Readership From Deconstruction to Reader's Response Criticism
Readers spawned by Deconstruction and Reader's Response Criticism have an unstoppable subversive spirit, bringing complexity and disorder to the postmodern textual world. However, the subjectivity of reader has multiple aspects. They are not only individualistic, but also who communicate with the text as well as who are closely connected with history and collective ideas. This paper discusses the four-dimensional identity of readers including the textual, personal, historical and collective perspectives. The very complexity of readers' identity, and also the constant reconstruction of it during the act of reading provides a possible path to form a community for literary reading.
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