Detail THE POWER OF READERS’ INTERPRETATION ON "NEGRO" BY LANGSTON HUGHES: A LITERARY CRITICISM EMPLOYING READER-RESPONSE THEORY   Oleh:  Trisnawati, Ririn Kurnia Jenis: Article from Proceeding Dalam koleksi: The 1st Literary Studies Conference: Configuring and Reconfiguring English Literature in Southeast Asia (SEA), Yogyakarta, Universitas Sanata Dharma, 17-18 Oktober 2013 Topik: Langston Hughes’ “Negro”; racial discrimination; reader-response theory Fulltext: 16 The Power of.pdf (457.08KB) Isi artikel Abrams in his book The Mirror and the Lamp (1953) has formulated the co-ordinates of Art Criticism four broad classes e.g. the work of art itself—the objective theories, the artist of the art—the expressive theories, the art as essentially an imitation of the universe—the mimetic theories, and last, the audience of the art—the pragmatic theories. This study is going to explore more on the latter theories namely by employing Reader-Response Theory where readers are seen as the important source of text interpretation. Iser in Thompson (1992:12) illustrates that the reader-response theory shifts the critical focus from the text to the reader. It means that the point of difference lies on the reader as the focus analysis. By involving the readers of Langston Hughes’ “Negro”, the researcher i s actually trying to achieve the study objectives e.g. exploring the readers’ interpretation on the issue of racial discrimination depicted by the poem and reassessing the pragmatic theories, particularly the reader-response theory in order to emphasize that readers are also worth studying in the context of literary criticism. This study involves students of English Literature Study Program Year 2012 Class B who are placed as the readers and the respondents of this study. They are to read the poem, Langston Hughes’ “Negro”, and are required to write down their responses, opinions and interpretation on it. Therefore, the data gained for this study are from the questionnaire sheet. As a result, the data are categorized and coded based on the readers’ perception toward racial discrimination and their awareness and sensitivity on racial discrimination. Firstly, readers have given various responses, and through the responses they show the power of tolerance, understanding and sympathy on the racial discrimination vocalized in the poem. These are the points that sometimes a critic cannot directly get and feel since these interpretations are really derived from the readers, the alive responses. Secondly, the readerresponse criticism practiced here can really show the different perspective of conducting literary criticism by focusing on the readers. Thus, studying the readers can be worth trying and be placed as one way of studying a work of art. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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