Discuss the limitations of Reader-Response Criticism’s emphasis on subjectivity in the face of structuralist and poststructuralist critiques of the “unified reader.”
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Reader subjectivity is absolute and unproblematic
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Poststructuralism destabilizes the unified reader by exposing fragmentary, decentered identities and the instability of meaning production
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Subjectivity negates textual meaning
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Reader Response ignores textuality