[en] HOLDING UP A MIRROR TO THEIR INNER SELVES: REAL READERS RESPONSES

[pt] ANDREA CARDOSO ZUBELLI

[en] FEMINISM

[en] TYPES OF READERS

[en] DORIS LESSING

[en] READER RESPONSE THEORY

[en] SHORT STORY

[en] This study aims to understand how readers react to a literary text. In addition, the study certifies how far we can say that response is consensual among readers or whether it is unique and, at times, idiosyncratic. This piece of research is based on readerresponse theory, as it is concerned with the study of the role of the reader in the process of reading, rather than the study of textual properties. It examines the reactions of five different readers to the short story To Room Nineteen by Doris Lessing. Categories are drawn from their responses and the readers are analyzed according to different types. This paper then defines the categories that come up in the comments of the five readers, the distribution of these categories and, finally, the types of readers that can be identified from what they comment about the text. The research is of a qualitative nature and content analysis is used for categorizing the data.

SONIA ZYNGIER

2015-02-09

[pt] TEXTO

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INGLÊS

https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/colecao.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=24046@2

https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.24046