Reading Between the Lines of Reader Response: Constructing ‘the Other’ through the Aesthetic Stance  

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Schieble, Melissa B.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education (Full Text) vol. 17 no. 4 (2010), page 375-384.
Topik: reader response theory; young adult fiction; transgender; pre-service English teachers; reading
Fulltext: Vol. 17, No. 4, December 2010, 375–384.pdf (95.29KB)

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In this article, the author challenges English teachers of literature to examine applications of reader response theory in teaching reading which posit that readers approach a text from two stances: ‘aesthetic’ (emotional) or ‘efferent’ (literal). The essay presents a case study of pre-service English teachers and adolescents’ webbased discussions about a work of young adult fiction based on a transgendered character. The study highlights how the pre-service teachers’ framing of questions about the book provoked the adolescents to adopt an aesthetic stance with the text that effectively ‘othered’ transgenderism, leaving potential opportunities for critical reflection and analysis of gender and sexuality unexamined.

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