Interpreting the Reader-Response Way:Understanding Contemporary Literary Theory

As students of Contemporary literary criticism all of us have studied Stanley Fish’s famous essay “Is there a, text in the Class?” and the possible responses that one could possibly elicit to it. In fact, Stanley’s, arguments in the essay are primarily based on the premise that the text is not a stable thing with a, determinate meaning. Accordingly, a proposal is being made to reinterpret the Scheherazade story from, Richard Burton’s “The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night” from a contemporary perspective and, thereby list out the multiplicity of views that a single story could evoke.,

 Keywords: Text, decode, dialectic, subversion, hegemony