Paradigms
What's Yours?
- Intellectual perception or view, accepted by an individual or a society as a clear example, model, or pattern of how things work in the world.
- In order to use the reader response criticism you must identify your personal paradigm
- Consider...
- What kind of community you grew up in?
- Who raised you?
- Travel / worldly experiences?
- Who do you communicate with on a daily basis?
- What is your ethnicity?
- What is your gender?
"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." Deborah Appleman, Critical Encounters