English - Literary Theory - Reader-response theory - The Reader Creates Meaning

5 steps: (1) READER-RESPONSE THEORY: Meaning doesn't reside in the text OR the author - it's created in the ACT OF READING. The reader is active, not passive. (2) Iser's 'GAPS': Texts have blanks/indeterminacies that readers fill in. Different readers fill them differently, creating different meanin