Www1.assumption.edu/users/ady/HHGateway/Gateway/Approaches.html#Reader Response. What Is Reader Response Criticism? Foundational Beliefs In reader response criticism, the act of reading is like a dialogue between the reader and the text that has meaning only when the two are joined in conversation.
It redefines the role of the text from an independent object into something that can only exist when it is read and interacts with the mind of the reader. In this way, the reader is not a passive recipient of what the text says, but rather takes an active role. Reader. Www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/glossary/Reader-response_criticism.html. VirtuaLit: Critical Approaches. Www.neabigread.org/teachers_guides/handouts/sunstoneandshadows/sunstoneandshadows_handout_2.pdf.