Theoretical Research. Mardy Fish Reader Response Criticism

Reader-response Criticism, also called Reception Aesthetics, Reception Theory, Reception and Responses Literary Theory. Since the late 1960s it was born in Germany, in contemporary Western literary theory circles, it has stirred up a strong academic theory of turmoil and realized the focus of literary criticism of the third shift, from the center of the author centers,the text centers to Readers.Iser as one founders of the Reception Aesthetics, at the same time as a representative of Reader-response Criticism of the United States, his phenomenology text reading theory, concerns the exchange of the reader and the text, put forward the a series of thoughtful theoretical thinking,such as implied reader and so on, which is profound impact on the American Reader-response Criticism. Stanley? Fish as the leader of U.S. Reader-response Criticism, to uphold the banner of Readers-center theory; and also make it in-depth, with innovative spirit and great theoretical courage, put forward the knowledge reader and so on, opened the Reader-response Criticism of the New Perspective. From the View of the modern esthetic criticism, aesthetic existence situation of the present would be entirely different. In short, the Readers-center of Reader-response Criticism and Reception Aesthetics had a profound impact on the contemporary Western Aesthetics. Of course, it also has its own theory of defects, in the late stage, text-the reader, the literary significance of dialogue and exchange of view and makes their own opened up new theoretical development.