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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

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