How responses to texts and genres change over time and in different cultural contexts

What this note covers

1. Meaning is made at the point of reading, not sealed inside the text
2. What actually changes: the reader's repertoire
3. Reading positions: dominant, negotiated and resistant readings
4. Genres travelling across cultures
5. How changing responses show up in practice
6. Judging past texts without falling into presentism
7. Building the evidence for a claim about response
8. How this is examined in the WACE paper

8 sections · 12 key terms & formulas · 6 common mistakes