Not necessarily Robin. It can take in all literary theories from structuralism onwards—ie theory in general,
Though, that is not where I’m coming from. My use of the word “reception” is to be taken in it’s more obvious meaning, ie, the way the words of a poem or song evoke meaning to a reader or listener. As to how dissimilar these meanings manifest in each reader and listener, then that is not my concern, and therefore would be more relevant to reception theory. As far as I'm concerned if all readers and listeners came to the same obvious meaning/interpretation, my argument still stands.
So I don’t think my argument relies on reception theory.
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Robin Hamilton wrote:
All this is perfectly true, if but ONLY if, you're wedded to Reception Theory as your critical paradigm. I'm not.
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