Example sentences of "reader 's response to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this respect , their rhetoric had the principal aim of facilitating the reader 's response to these otherwise ‘ incomprehensible ’ texts whose erosion of conventional contours impeded the reader 's access . |
| 2 | To the interplay of character in its amusing aspects O'Brian adds a sense of the ridiculous which often relaxes tension and sharpens the reader 's response to intricate action . |
| 3 | We hope to have shown , without further analysis , how the burden of interpretation in this passage falls principally on the reader 's response to foregrounding . |
| 4 | While the Formalists had treated them as objective features inherent in literature itself , Richards 's emphasis was on the reader 's response to literature and on the evaluation of this response . |
| 5 | There seems to be a struggle , which Milton perhaps did not intend , between the reader 's response to Satan as a powerful and convincing character and the way in which one should react to such a malevolent force . |
| 6 | In this sense , the author 's intention does play an indirect part in determining the meaning of the words in question , because that meaning is decided by the ordinary reader 's response to the question : " What on earth is the author getting at ? " |
| 7 | Also concerned with the reader 's response to the literary text is Richard Watts ' " Cross-Cultural Problems in the Perception of Literature " . |
| 8 | With specific reference to the complex Swiss-German linguistic and educational situation , Watts suggests that the reader 's response to English literary texts is marred by " the reality set of the sociocultural group to which that reader belongs " ( p. 28 ) . |