An approach to biblical reading and interpretation in which the meaning of the text is the meaning invoked in the reader as he/she responds to the text in his/her reading. In a reader-response approach, the "authorial intention," i.e., what the author intended to be understood, is either assumed to be un-recoverable or immaterial.
The fact that, taken to its logical conclusion, this approach would make nonsense of all communication has not detered its proponents.
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