Reader-Response Theory: Quotes Quiz
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Reader-Response Theory? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Who said, "The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment, and a particular physical condition"?
David Bleich
Louise Rosenblatt
Norman N. Holland
Wolfgang Iser
Q. Who said, "The unity we find in literary texts is impregnated with the identity that finds that unity"?
Samuel Beckett
William Faulkner
Norman N. Holland
Stanley Fish
Q. Who said, "[T]he possible reader must be visualized as playing a particular role with particular characteristics, which may vary according to circumstances"?
Stanley Fish
Wolfgang Iser
John Milton
David Bleich
Q. Who said, "The concept is simply the rigorous and disinterested asking of the question, what does this word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, chapter, novel, play, poem, do?"
Stanley Fish
Norman N. Holland
Louise Rosenblatt
David Bleich
Q. Who said, "By impeding textual coherence, the blanks transform themselves into stimuli for acts of ideation"?
William Faulkner
Louise Rosenblatt
Samuel Beckett
Wolfgang Iser