Today Reader Response, Deconstruction and other deconstructive reader-based interpretative theories such as New Historicism, Post-Structuralist Marxism, Cognitive Poetics, Feminism, Post-colonialism and Postmodernism are considered major interpretive methods. ... The paper concludes that reader-based poststructuralist methods of analysis train students to make efforts to bring change into their cognitive structures and see the world from multiple perspectives. ...

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