Answer to Question #204632 in English for Phumzile Zondi

Question

In a short paragraph explain two main differences between new criticism band reader response criticism

Answer 1

Reader-Response and New Criticism share some critical features; however, they are also two very contrasting concepts. Reader-Response concentrates on attention towards the text predisposed by the reader's opinions. New Criticism targets the text with no impact, but the text only. In simpler terms, different from text-based methods like New Criticism founded upon some objective implication by this time in work being scrutinized, reader-response criticism contends that a text has no significance before a reader experiences—reads—it.