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“There are many key players in the development and evolution of reader response criticism. Some of the most influential include:
1. Louise Rosenblatt: Rosenblatt is often credited with laying the foundation for reader response criticism in her 1938 book “Literature as Exploration.” In this work, she argued that readers bring their own experiences and perspectives to a text, and that meaning is constructed in the interaction between the reader and the text.
2. Wolfgang Iser: Iser was a German literary critic who played a significant role in the development of reader response criticism in the 1970s. He argued that meaning is not fixed in a text but is instead created through the reader’s engagement with the text.
Stanley Fish: Fish is an American literary critic who is closely associated with reader response criticism. In his 1980 book “Is There a Text in This Class?”, he argued that meaning is determined by the interpretive communities in which readers are situated.
3. Norman Holland: Holland was an American literary critic who developed a psychoanalytic approach to reader response criticism. He argued that readers unconsciously project their own psychological issues onto a text, which shapes their interpretation of it.
4. Jane Tompkins: Tompkins is an American literary critic who is known for her work on feminist and cultural studies approaches to reader response criticism. In her 1987 book “Sensational Designs,” she argued that readers’ responses to a text are shaped by their social and cultural contexts.”