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Unit 3: Interpretations and Perspectives
Quick questions on Reader-response and the positioned reader: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 3
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What is positioning?Show answer
A text positions its reader through countless small choices. Whose point of view we follow shapes whose side we take. What information we are given and when controls our sympathy and suspense. Tone tells us how to feel about events.
What are different readers, different readings?Show answer
Because readers bring their own contexts, the same text positions different readers differently. A reader who has lived an experience the text depicts may respond with recognition where another responds with curiosity. Reader-response criticism makes this variability part of the analysis rather than a problem to be solved. It connects directly to the idea that no reading is the single correct one, which underpins all of Unit 3.
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