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GATE 2022 XH2 (English) – Question 44

Critical Theories and Intellectual Traditions · Theoretical Paradigms: Structuralism, Marxism, feminism, existentialism, poststructuralism, modernism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, posthumanism · 1 mark · Multiple choice

In the context of the Reader-Response Theory, Louise M Rosenblatt in her essay “The Poem as Event”, considers that the reader should ________.

  1. participate in a transaction with the text
  2. act against a text
  3. be acted upon by the text
  4. reject the text

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Correct answer: (A) participate in a transaction with the text

Explanation

Rosenblatt's transactional theory sees reading as a transaction between the reader and the text, which together make the poem.