References

Practice 理論實踐
Texts 文本討論與推薦文本 

Practice:

reading process
A. Pick up a text that you have never read before, and record the stages you go through in building up a "gestalt" image of the text (from having first     impression to marking codes and correcting the impressions).  What is your first impression?  What are   your questions and expectations of the text as you read it?  What are its gaps?  What textual features (codes) helps you answer the questions or fill in the gaps?  As you fill in the textual gaps, do you draw on any literary conventions, knowledge about the author, or personal experience?
    As a conclusion, you can try to speculate where meaning resides.  In the author*s mind, your mind, in the text, in social/literary conventions, or somewhere among the four?

Horizons of expectation
B. This paper can also be a team work; that is, you can invite your classmates (or groupmates) to do it with you.
    The team first chooses a controversial text and then collects and analyzes different readers* (e.g. your          classmates*, your siblings*, your relatives* and neighbors*) responses to it by talking about their horizons.

Narrative structure & different kinds of reader
C. Get a story/poem with a I-narrator and a (you-)narratee.  Analyze the differences between the text*s author, narrator, narratee, and readers.

Texts: 

• "The Baby-Sitter" story by ROBERT COOVER ; film reviews at IMDB
• Poems by Elizabeth Bishop ("Filling Station ," "Miracle for Breakfast" and their connections with "One Art" and "Sestina")
• Poems by 夏宇︰〈姜嫄〉、
• 網路文學與讀者