I don't quite know how this will turn out since I've had issues trying to insert pictures, but here goes.



One literary theory that has always interested me, in part because of the challenge, is reader-response criticism. This theory focuses on the reader or audience of a work, and how they react to and interpret it. According to the resources given, the reader identifies with the work and can react in a number of ways depending on how emotionally involved they become in the particular work.



Another literary theory that has interested me, being the history nut that I am, is biographical. Learning about the lives of famous figures is something I have always enjoyed. Our resource tells us that practitioners of this theory paint the authors of biographies as role models to students.



Well, not bad for a first blog. It's pretty late, like the fine student I am, I put this off until about 12:30 a.m. Time for bed....