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1923 Decatur (Illinois) Rev. 1 Jan. 312 (advt.) A marvelous series of furniture specials to determine ‘reader response’ of all newspapers.

1979 Maledicta 3 83 Among those critics who use psychoanalytical theory there is little agreement over what one can say legitimately about ‘reader response’.

1985 Notes & Queries Dec. 571/1 Extreme versions of reader-response, which place the whole burden of meaning within the perceptions of the reader, are usefully corrected here.

1991 Classical Rev. 41 340 But this reviewer's reader-response to S.'s reader-responses was a mixture of disappointment and irritation.

1965 R. Sharrock in J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Introd. p. viii Not unnaturally, for one in so sensitive a relation to his public, as preacher and fabulist, he has caught the attention of the founder of reader-response criticism [sc. Wolfgang Iser].

2004 Rocky Mountain Rev. Lang. & Lit. 58 77 Letters stimulates thought about the virtues of reader-response criticism even while it warns of its pitfalls.

1978 L. M. Rosenblatt Reader, Text, Poem Epil. 187 The successive editions..have maintained my association of reader-response theory with the need for readers to be critical of the culturally acquired assumptions they themselves bring to the transaction.

2002 Slavic Rev. 61 183 Consistent with her emphasis on contextualization, Morris uses the vocabulary of reader-response theory.