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This paper is an attempt to review the development of reader-response criticism since its real beginning in the early seventies and its development by such important critics as Louise Resenblatt, Norman Holland, Wolfgang Iser, Stanley Fish, Jane Tompkins, and others. The writer also attempts to get this critical approach in praxis by applying it on Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess. The paper thus is divided into two parts, the first part surveys the main points of view of reader-response critics according to the main explorers of this theory: Wolfgang Iser and Stanley Fish. The second part is an attempt of a reader-response reading of Browning’s My Last Duchess. This reading of the poem is based on Stanley Fish’s theory of reading as temporal experience rather than a spatial one. The writer also attempts Iser’s theory of indeterminacy.
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