Psychoanalytic Criticism - 28 views
Thanks, Aaron. You've hit on a lively topic in psychology - nature versus nurture. I agree that physiologically our human brain structure has been stable for an extraordinarily long time. I thin...
During the late 1970s and 1980s, reader-response criticism, influenced in part
by trends in other disciplines, especially psychology and psychoanalytical
theories, expanded to include a study of the reader as subject, a combination of
various social practices, defined and positioned socially by his or her
environment. This shift from the relationship between reader and text, and their
mutual impact, to a focus on self-knowledge and observation has been summarized
in anthologies, including Jane Tompkins's Reader-Response Criticism: From
Formalism to Poststructuralism (1980).
