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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which critic is most closely associated with the concept of the implied reader?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Wolfgang Iser developed the concept of the implied reader within reader-response theory.
• The implied reader is a textual structure or role anticipated by the work rather than a specific empirical person.
• It includes the perspectives, expectations and reading activities invited by the text.
• Jauss, Fish and Rosenblatt developed other influential accounts of readers and reception.
• The implied reader is a textual structure or role anticipated by the work rather than a specific empirical person.
• It includes the perspectives, expectations and reading activities invited by the text.
• Jauss, Fish and Rosenblatt developed other influential accounts of readers and reception.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
In Wolfgang Iser's theory, the implied reader is best understood as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The implied reader is the position that a text prepares for its reception.
• It consists of textual cues and required acts of interpretation rather than an actual person.
• A real reader may accept, modify or resist this role.
• The concept therefore mediates between textual structure and the reader's activity.
• It consists of textual cues and required acts of interpretation rather than an actual person.
• A real reader may accept, modify or resist this role.
• The concept therefore mediates between textual structure and the reader's activity.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
What function do gaps or blanks perform in Iser's account of reading?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Gaps are points of incompleteness or discontinuity that require active participation from the reader.
• Readers connect perspectives, infer relations and construct provisional coherence.
• Different acts of gap-filling can produce varied but textually constrained realizations.
• Gaps therefore energize interpretation rather than removing it.
• Readers connect perspectives, infer relations and construct provisional coherence.
• Different acts of gap-filling can produce varied but textually constrained realizations.
• Gaps therefore energize interpretation rather than removing it.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
In reader-response theory, indeterminacy most accurately refers to:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Indeterminacy arises where a text does not completely determine its own realization.
• Such openness invites readers to infer, select and organize possible meanings.
• Indeterminacy does not mean that any interpretation is equally valid.
• Textual patterns continue to guide and limit the reader's responses.
• Such openness invites readers to infer, select and organize possible meanings.
• Indeterminacy does not mean that any interpretation is equally valid.
• Textual patterns continue to guide and limit the reader's responses.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which statement best describes Iser's model of the literary work?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Iser distinguishes the written text from the work realized in reading.
• The literary work emerges through interaction between textual structures and the reader's activity.
• Meaning is neither located entirely in the text nor invented freely by the reader.
• This interactive model is central to the phenomenological branch of reader-response theory.
• The literary work emerges through interaction between textual structures and the reader's activity.
• Meaning is neither located entirely in the text nor invented freely by the reader.
• This interactive model is central to the phenomenological branch of reader-response theory.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Which theorist is associated with the horizon of expectations?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Hans Robert Jauss introduced the horizon of expectations as a central concept of reception theory.
• It refers to the assumptions, conventions and standards through which an audience receives a work.
• Horizons are historically variable rather than timeless.
• Reception history studies how these horizons change across periods.
• It refers to the assumptions, conventions and standards through which an audience receives a work.
• Horizons are historically variable rather than timeless.
• Reception history studies how these horizons change across periods.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Jauss's horizon of expectations is formed chiefly by:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A horizon of expectations is shaped by familiar genres, earlier texts, norms and social knowledge.
• Readers approach a new work through expectations formed by previous cultural experience.
• A work may fulfil, modify or challenge this horizon.
• The concept makes literary reception historically specific.
• Readers approach a new work through expectations formed by previous cultural experience.
• A work may fulfil, modify or challenge this horizon.
• The concept makes literary reception historically specific.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
What does Jauss mean by aesthetic distance?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Aesthetic distance measures the relation between an existing horizon of expectations and a new work.
• A work that strongly challenges familiar conventions may create a greater distance.
• This distance can change as later audiences become accustomed to the innovation.
• The concept helps explain changing judgements of literary value.
• A work that strongly challenges familiar conventions may create a greater distance.
• This distance can change as later audiences become accustomed to the innovation.
• The concept helps explain changing judgements of literary value.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Reception history primarily examines:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Reception history studies the changing responses, interpretations and evaluations attached to a work.
• It may examine reviews, adaptations, educational institutions and later critical traditions.
• The approach treats literary meaning and value as historically mediated.
• It therefore expands literary history beyond the circumstances of original composition.
• It may examine reviews, adaptations, educational institutions and later critical traditions.
• The approach treats literary meaning and value as historically mediated.
• It therefore expands literary history beyond the circumstances of original composition.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which theorist is most closely associated with interpretive communities?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Stanley Fish developed the concept of interpretive communities.
• Such communities share assumptions, conventions and strategies that make texts meaningful in particular ways.
• Interpretation is therefore socially learned rather than produced by an isolated reader.
• The concept also questions the idea of a wholly independent and self-sufficient text.
• Such communities share assumptions, conventions and strategies that make texts meaningful in particular ways.
• Interpretation is therefore socially learned rather than produced by an isolated reader.
• The concept also questions the idea of a wholly independent and self-sufficient text.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
In Fish's theory, interpretive communities are groups whose members:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Interpretive communities provide the assumptions and strategies through which readers recognize textual features.
• Members need not have identical biographies or consciously agree on every reading.
• Their shared practices shape what counts as evidence, coherence and meaning.
• Interpretations may change when communal strategies change.
• Members need not have identical biographies or consciously agree on every reading.
• Their shared practices shape what counts as evidence, coherence and meaning.
• Interpretations may change when communal strategies change.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which statement best captures Fish's affective stylistics?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Affective stylistics follows the reader's experience as a sentence or text unfolds through time.
• Meaning is treated as an event produced during reading rather than as a static object waiting to be extracted.
• Expectations may be formed, revised or frustrated at successive moments.
• The approach is not limited to emotion in the ordinary sense.
• Meaning is treated as an event produced during reading rather than as a static object waiting to be extracted.
• Expectations may be formed, revised or frustrated at successive moments.
• The approach is not limited to emotion in the ordinary sense.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Which thinker developed the transactional theory of reading?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Louise Rosenblatt developed the transactional theory of reading.
• She argues that meaning arises through a transaction between a particular reader and a particular text in a particular situation.
• Neither text nor reader alone contains the complete literary work.
• Her approach has been especially influential in literary education.
• She argues that meaning arises through a transaction between a particular reader and a particular text in a particular situation.
• Neither text nor reader alone contains the complete literary work.
• Her approach has been especially influential in literary education.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
In Rosenblatt's transactional theory, a literary work is:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Rosenblatt treats the literary work as an event emerging during the reader-text transaction.
• The text provides verbal signs, while the reader brings experiences, memories and expectations.
• Meaning is therefore situated and dynamic rather than a fixed object.
• The transaction remains grounded in the text and is not unrestricted fantasy.
• The text provides verbal signs, while the reader brings experiences, memories and expectations.
• Meaning is therefore situated and dynamic rather than a fixed object.
• The transaction remains grounded in the text and is not unrestricted fantasy.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Which distinction is central to Rosenblatt's theory of reading stances?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Rosenblatt distinguishes efferent reading from aesthetic reading.
• In efferent reading, attention centres on information or action to be carried away after reading.
• In aesthetic reading, attention centres on the lived-through experience of the text.
• These are stances on a continuum rather than rigid categories of texts.
• In efferent reading, attention centres on information or action to be carried away after reading.
• In aesthetic reading, attention centres on the lived-through experience of the text.
• These are stances on a continuum rather than rigid categories of texts.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Consider the following statements.
Statement I: Iser's gaps require readers to participate in constructing coherence.
Statement II: Iser's theory allows readers to ignore all textual constraints.
Statement I: Iser's gaps require readers to participate in constructing coherence.
Statement II: Iser's theory allows readers to ignore all textual constraints.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because gaps stimulate readers to infer connections among textual segments.
• Statement II is incorrect because the text supplies structures, perspectives and limits for realization.
• Readerly activity is productive but not arbitrary.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because the text supplies structures, perspectives and limits for realization.
• Readerly activity is productive but not arbitrary.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Assertion: Jauss's reception theory treats literary value as historically variable.
Reason: Different audiences approach works through changing horizons of expectations.
Reason: Different audiences approach works through changing horizons of expectations.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because reception theory studies how literary evaluation changes over time.
• The Reason is correct because audiences possess historically changing expectations, conventions and standards.
• These changing horizons help explain why a work may be rejected in one period and celebrated in another.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because audiences possess historically changing expectations, conventions and standards.
• These changing horizons help explain why a work may be rejected in one period and celebrated in another.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Wolfgang Iser
2. Hans Robert Jauss
3. Stanley Fish
4. Louise Rosenblatt
List II
I. Interpretive communities
II. Transactional theory
III. Implied reader
IV. Horizon of expectations
List I
1. Wolfgang Iser
2. Hans Robert Jauss
3. Stanley Fish
4. Louise Rosenblatt
List II
I. Interpretive communities
II. Transactional theory
III. Implied reader
IV. Horizon of expectations
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Wolfgang Iser matches III because he developed the implied reader.
• Hans Robert Jauss matches IV because he introduced the horizon of expectations.
• Stanley Fish matches I because he theorized interpretive communities.
• Louise Rosenblatt matches II because she developed transactional theory.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-III, 2-IV, 3-I, 4-II.
• Hans Robert Jauss matches IV because he introduced the horizon of expectations.
• Stanley Fish matches I because he theorized interpretive communities.
• Louise Rosenblatt matches II because she developed transactional theory.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-III, 2-IV, 3-I, 4-II.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Which of the following is incorrectly matched?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The extraction of information for later use describes Rosenblatt's efferent stance, not the aesthetic stance.
• The aesthetic stance emphasizes the lived-through experience of reading.
• The implied reader, horizon of expectations and interpretive communities are correctly matched.
• Therefore, option D is the incorrect pair.
• The aesthetic stance emphasizes the lived-through experience of reading.
• The implied reader, horizon of expectations and interpretive communities are correctly matched.
• Therefore, option D is the incorrect pair.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Which of the following statements are correct?
1. Reception theory studies changing responses to works over time.
2. Interpretive communities make interpretation entirely private.
3. Transactional theory treats meaning as emerging between reader and text.
4. Indeterminacy can invite multiple realizations.
1. Reception theory studies changing responses to works over time.
2. Interpretive communities make interpretation entirely private.
3. Transactional theory treats meaning as emerging between reader and text.
4. Indeterminacy can invite multiple realizations.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because reception theory examines the historical life of literary works.
• Statement 2 is incorrect because interpretive communities emphasize socially shared strategies.
• Statement 3 is correct because Rosenblatt locates meaning in the reader-text transaction.
• Statement 4 is correct because indeterminacy permits varied but constrained realizations.
• Therefore, statements 1, 3 and 4 only are correct.
• Statement 2 is incorrect because interpretive communities emphasize socially shared strategies.
• Statement 3 is correct because Rosenblatt locates meaning in the reader-text transaction.
• Statement 4 is correct because indeterminacy permits varied but constrained realizations.
• Therefore, statements 1, 3 and 4 only are correct.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
A poem omits the cause of a speaker's sudden departure, requiring readers to infer it from scattered images and shifts in tone. Which Iserian concept is most directly illustrated?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The omitted cause creates a gap or blank in the text.
• Readers must connect dispersed clues and form a provisional account of the departure.
• This activity is often described as concretization or realization.
• The text guides the inference without fully specifying one inevitable answer.
• Readers must connect dispersed clues and form a provisional account of the departure.
• This activity is often described as concretization or realization.
• The text guides the inference without fully specifying one inevitable answer.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
A novel initially violated its first audience's genre expectations but was later treated as a classic after those conventions changed. Which theory best explains this development?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Jauss's reception theory explains changing literary evaluation through changing horizons of expectations.
• The initial audience judged the novel against conventions that the work challenged.
• Later readers approached it through a transformed horizon shaped partly by the novel's own innovations.
• Reception history therefore helps explain its movement from resistance to canonical status.
• The initial audience judged the novel against conventions that the work challenged.
• Later readers approached it through a transformed horizon shaped partly by the novel's own innovations.
• Reception history therefore helps explain its movement from resistance to canonical status.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Two academic groups read the same story differently because one uses psychoanalytic assumptions and the other uses Marxist assumptions. Which Fishian concept best accounts for the disagreement?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The groups belong to different interpretive communities with different assumptions and reading strategies.
• These strategies influence what each group notices and treats as significant evidence.
• Their disagreement is therefore socially organized rather than merely accidental.
• Fish's concept does not require that one community's members produce identical readings.
• These strategies influence what each group notices and treats as significant evidence.
• Their disagreement is therefore socially organized rather than merely accidental.
• Fish's concept does not require that one community's members produce identical readings.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
A student reads a safety manual to remember procedures and later reads a lyric poem for the experience of its rhythm and imagery. Which distinction is illustrated?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Reading the manual for information to be used afterward illustrates the efferent stance.
• Attending to the experienced qualities of rhythm, imagery and feeling illustrates the aesthetic stance.
• Rosenblatt treats these stances as positions on a continuum.
• The distinction concerns the reader's selective attention during the transaction.
• Attending to the experienced qualities of rhythm, imagery and feeling illustrates the aesthetic stance.
• Rosenblatt treats these stances as positions on a continuum.
• The distinction concerns the reader's selective attention during the transaction.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which statement best summarizes the shared contribution of reader-response and reception theories?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Reader-response theories analyse how readers realize, experience and interpret texts.
• Reception theory adds a historical account of changing audiences and evaluative horizons.
• These approaches do not deny textual structure or make interpretation purely private.
• Together, they challenge the idea that literary meaning exists as a fully complete object independent of reading.
• Reception theory adds a historical account of changing audiences and evaluative horizons.
• These approaches do not deny textual structure or make interpretation purely private.
• Together, they challenge the idea that literary meaning exists as a fully complete object independent of reading.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. Wolfgang Iser సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. A role or set of response-inviting structures inscribed in the text సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. They invite readers to connect textual segments and construct coherence సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. Areas not fully specified by the text that permit active realization సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. The work emerges through interaction between textual structure and the reader's acts of realization సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. Hans Robert Jauss సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. Existing genre conventions, prior works and cultural assumptions సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. The gap between an audience's existing expectations and a work's formal or thematic innovations సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. How interpretations and evaluations of a work change across different historical audiences సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. Stanley Fish సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. Use socially learned interpretive strategies సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. It analyses the developing effects of language on a reader during the temporal act of reading సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: B. Louise Rosenblatt సమాధానం: B.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: C. An event produced through the transaction between reader and text సమాధానం: C.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: D. Efferent and aesthetic సమాధానం: D.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: C. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: C.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: A. 1-III, 2-IV, 3-I, 4-II సమాధానం: A.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: D. Aesthetic stance — extraction of information for later use సమాధానం: D.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: C. 1, 3 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: A. A gap inviting concretization సమాధానం: A.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: B. Jauss's reception theory సమాధానం: B.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: C. Interpretive communities సమాధానం: C.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: D. Efferent and aesthetic stances సమాధానం: D.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: B. They shift attention toward the activities of readers and the historical conditions of reception సమాధానం: B.