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The 36 pages that link to Reader-response criticism, each with the reason it gives.

• Literary criticismCompared with: It challenges accounts that locate meaning chiefly in the text or its author.

• Feminist literary criticismRelated: It helps explain how gendered expectations affect interpretation and literary judgment.

• Literary canonCompared with: It shifts attention from fixed rankings toward varied encounters with literary works.

• IntertextualityRelated: Recognizing textual echoes depends partly on what readers know and bring to interpretation.

• New CriticismCompared with: It gives readers’ responses interpretive weight that New Criticism typically withholds.

• Historical criticismCompared with: It emphasizes acts of reading rather than the work’s original historical conditions.

• Biblical exegesisCompared with: It foregrounds readers’ roles, while exegesis often prioritizes textual and historical evidence.

• Close readingCompared with: It places interpretive activity in the reader’s encounter, rather than concentrating chiefly on textual features.

• SubtextNarrower topic: Interpretations of implied meaning depend partly on what readers bring to the work.

• NarratologyCompared with: It foregrounds audience activity where structural narratology often foregrounds narrative organization.

• Reception theoryRelated: It shares reception theory’s attention to audiences while often emphasizing individual reading processes.

• Roland BarthesRelated: Barthes’s account of textual meaning helped strengthen attention to reading rather than authorial intention.

• DeconstructionCompared with: It foregrounds the reader’s role, while deconstruction focuses on instability within language and texts.

• InterpretationCompared with: It emphasizes the interpreter’s role rather than treating meaning as fixed in the text alone.

• Biblical hermeneuticsCompared with: It shifts emphasis from authorial or historical context toward interpretive reception.

• Genre fictionRelated: Genre conventions work partly by directing readers' expectations and interpretations.

• Death of the AuthorRelated: It shares the theory’s attention to readers but develops that emphasis through distinct methods.

• Direct addressRelated: Direct address can assign readers a role that shapes how they interpret a work.

• Audience receptionCompared with: It is a specific critical approach, whereas reception also covers responses beyond literature.

• Popular fictionRelated: Audience interpretation helps explain why accessible stories can acquire meanings beyond a publisher’s plan.

• ExegesisCompared with: It shifts emphasis from recoverable textual or authorial meaning toward the activity of interpretation.

• Intentional fallacyRelated: It shifts interpretive emphasis from authorial intention toward readers and acts of reading.

• Reception historyRelated: It focuses on readers’ role in interpretation, a central concern of reception history.

• Literary theoryRelated: It makes interpretation's audience an active part of the account of meaning.

• Literary genreRelated: Audience expectations help determine how a work’s genre is recognized.

• Literary allusionRelated: Different readers recognize different sources, so allusions can produce unequal meanings.

• Historical-critical methodCompared with: It shifts attention from historical origins toward interpretation and the reader’s role.

• Northrop FryeCompared with: Frye emphasized literature’s structures and conventions more than the reader’s role in interpretation.

• OulipoCompared with: Oulipo foregrounds authorial procedures, while this approach centers interpretation and reception.

• Julio CortázarRelated: The selectable chapters of Hopscotch make readerly participation part of the novel’s design.

• Umberto EcoRelated: Eco’s model reader describes the interpretive role his texts build into their structure.

• If on a winter’s night a travelerRelated: The novel dramatizes interpretation as an active process rather than passive reception.

• Interpretation (hermeneutics)Compared with: It locates meaning partly in the encounter between a work and its interpreters.

• Clarissa; or, The History of a Young LadyRelated: The competing letters require judgment, while the novel’s ending has provoked sharply different responses.

• Literary scienceCompared with: It shifts emphasis from textual structure to the act of reading.

• Literature (academic discipline)Compared with: It contrasts text-centered accounts by making reading itself central to meaning.