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- Title
A READER- RESPONSE APPROACH TO SHERWOOD ANDERSON: DEATH IN THE WOODS.
- Authors
Güniz SERTEL, Yasemin
- Abstract
With its revolutionary new styles, modernist literature assigns to the reader a new role and responsibility which obliges him to be an active participant in the understanding and production of meaning in the text; a role explained mainly by the reader-response theory. The following article entitled "A Reader-Response Approach to Sherwood Anderson: Death in the Woods" presents an interpretation of the American writer Sherwood Anderson's short story Death in theWoods in the light of reader-response criticism which prompts the reader for his active participation in reading a text. In general, the short story takes the reader to the insignificant life of a woman victimized by the patriarchal society. However, she does gain significance after her death, when her dead body becomes a text to be perceived and contrastingly interpreted from the different perspectives of different people.
- Subjects
ANDERSON, Sherwood, 1876-1941; SHORT story (Literary form); DEAD; CRITICISM; LITERATURE; AMERICAN short stories
- Publication
Usak University Journal of Social Sciences / Uşak Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2018, Vol 11, Issue 2, p183
- ISSN
1308-738X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.29217/uujss.493