Co author and reader

 Co author and reader 

1. Reader-Response Criticism:

 * Author's Role: The author creates a text with certain structures, language, and potential meanings, but acknowledges that the actual meaning isn't solely within the text itself. They might try to anticipate reader responses but ultimately cede some control.

 * Reader's Role: The reader is paramount. Their individual experiences, beliefs, and cultural background are key to interpreting and constructing meaning from the text. Different readers can have valid, yet different, interpretations.

 * Interplay: The text acts as a stimulus, and the reader's mind actively engages with it. The author provides the raw materials, and the reader, through their interaction, builds the finished product of understanding.

2. Audience Reception:

 * Author's Role: The author considers their intended audience and their likely expectations, knowledge, and cultural context. This might influence their choices in terms of style, themes, and content.

 * Reader's Role: The actual audience receives the text and their collective understanding, reactions, and interpretations can be studied. This can be influenced by social, historical, and cultural factors.

 * Interplay: This focuses on the broader social and cultural impact of a text. The author aims to communicate with an audience, and the reception studies how effectively that communication (and its various interpretations) occurs within a specific context.

3. Interpretative Communities:

 * Author's Role: The author might be aware of or even belong to certain "interpretative communities" – groups of readers who share similar reading strategies and assumptions. This could influence how they write, knowing how certain groups might approach their work.

 * Reader's Role: Readers belong to various interpretative communities (e.g., academic critics, genre fans, cultural groups) that shape their reading practices and the kinds of meanings they prioritize.

 * Interplay: Meaning is negotiated within these communities. While the author provides the text, the shared frameworks of the interpretative community heavily influence how that text is understood and valued.

4. The Death of the Author:

 * Author's Role: This concept (Barthes) suggests that once the text is published, the author's intentions and background become irrelevant to its interpretation. The text stands alone.

 * Reader's Role: The reader is liberated from the constraints of authorial intent. They are free to create their own meanings based solely on the text itself.

 * Interplay: This theory emphasizes the complete autonomy of the reader in the meaning-making process, effectively diminishing the author's authority over the interpretation.

5. Implied Reader:

 * Author's Role: The author constructs an "implied reader" within the text – an ideal reader who understands the nuances, shares certain assumptions, and can appreciate the author's techniques. The author writes for this imagined reader.

 * Reader's Role: The actual reader engages with the text, trying to align themselves with the implied reader to understand the intended meaning and experience.

 * Interplay: The author guides the actual reader towards a particular reading experience through the construction of the implied reader. The success of the communication depends on the alignment between the actual reader and the implied one.

6. Narratee:

 * Author's Role: The author explicitly or implicitly addresses a narratee (the person the narrator is telling the story to within the narrative). The characteristics of the narratee can influence how the story is told.

 * Reader's Role: The actual reader overhears the narration directed at the narratee. Their understanding is shaped by the narrator's relationship with the narratee.

 * Interplay: The author uses the narrator-narratee relationship as a way to control the flow of information and influence the actual reader's perspective.

7. Collaborative Storytelling:

 * Author's Role: The author might initiate a story and invite others (including readers) to contribute to its development. They might set rules or guidelines for participation.

 * Reader's Role: Readers become active co-creators, adding their own ideas, characters, and plotlines to the evolving narrative.

 * Interplay: The traditional roles of author and reader blur. Meaning and the direction of the story are jointly constructed through the interaction of multiple participants.

8. Participatory Culture:

 * Author's Role: The original author might create a text that inspires a wider cultural engagement, with readers creating fan works, discussions, and interpretations.

 * Reader's Role: Readers actively participate in extending and reinterpreting the original text through various creative and social activities.

 * Interplay: The author creates the initial spark, but the readers fuel a larger cultural phenomenon around the text, often taking it in unexpected directions.

9. Fan Fiction:

 * Author's Role: The original author creates the source material (characters, worlds, etc.) that fans then build upon. Their stance on fan fiction can vary.

 * Reader's Role: Readers become writers themselves, creating new stories and scenarios using the existing elements of the original work.

 * Interplay: Readers actively engage with and transform the author's creation, often exploring different possibilities and perspectives.

10. Transmedia Storytelling:

 * Author's Role: The author (or a team) designs a story that unfolds across multiple platforms and media formats. Each piece contributes to the overall narrative.

 * Reader's Role: Readers actively engage with the story across these different platforms, piecing together the complete narrative experience.

 * Interplay: The author strategically disseminates story elements, and the reader actively participates in assembling the full 

picture by engaging with different media.