Implied Reader
A reader who is expected to respond in specific ways to “response inviting structures”
Actual reader
Responses inevitable coloured by his or her own experiences
Gaps
Must fill in the gaps by explaining them, creating in his or her mind aspects of a work that aren’t in the text but are incited by the text.
Interpretive communities
Composed of members who share a particular reading strategy or set of community assumptions they bring to reading.
Transactional Approach
Text controls the reader / reader controls the text
Reception Theory
Recognizes that readers in different historical periods will judge the text in different ways