abstract:Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader (or "audience") and his or her experience of a literary work, in contrast to other schools and theories that focus attention primarily on the author or the content and form of the work.
Main sub-themes are structuralcriticism, narrativecriticism, reader-response criticism, post-colonialcriticism, feministcriticism, deconstructivecriticismandotherways.