Reader Response Criticism: A Comprehensive Overview
Reader Response Criticism
Introduction
Reader response criticism/theory focuses on the reader’s role in interpreting literary texts. It gained popularity because it acknowledges the reader’s personal experience and active participation in the meaning-making process.
Key Figures and Concepts
Stanley Fish
Fish analyzed readers’ responses as they unfold sequentially while reading. He argued that texts create expectations and then either fulfill or frustrate them. Fish also introduced the concept of interpretive
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Logic and Proof
Propositional Logic
Twelve Ways to Say: p ⇒ q
- If p, then q.
- If p, q.
- q if p.
- q when p.
- p is sufficient for q.
- q is necessary for p.
- A sufficient condition for q is p.
- A necessary condition for p is q.
- p implies q.
- p only if q.
- q whenever p.
- q follows from p.
Related Conditional Statements
- Contrapositive: ¬ q → ¬ p
- Inverse ¬ p: → ¬ q
- Converse: q → p
Biconditionals
- “p is necessary and sufficient for q”
- “If p then q, and conversely”
- “p iff q”
Precedence
- Neg
- And, or
- Implies or biconditional
Propositional
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Variable Resistor
Non-linear, not suitable for positional transducer
Resistance along the track is not a linear relationship, increasing with the square of the spindle’s rotation. (R α S2)
Linear Variable Resistor
Can be used to provide a variable voltage (wiper picking up variable voltage potentiometer)
Characteristics
- Voltage vs. Resistor Setting: Linear
- Resolution: Has been defined as the largest change in the input which does not cause a change in output.
Slider Carbon Potentiometer
Effect of Loading
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Unused and Stuck States in Systems
Unused state: Not utilized in the main sequence.
Stuck state: Will not progress into the main sequence and prevents the system from reaching it.
Synchronous Counters
Advantages: Fewer errors occur due to the common clock at high-frequency counting.
- Avoid stuck states at power-up as it may not revert to the main sequence.
Advantages of synchronous counters over ripple counters: Ripple counters can only work in binary while synchronous counters work with other codes, e.
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THE CONTROL ROOM
A room adjacent to the studio, separate from the institutions, coordinates all production activities. This is where the director, assistant director, producer, production assistants, and mixer are located. This room receives and processes all signals to form the program that will be taped or broadcast live. The television control room need not be adjacent to the set or have direct visual contact with it, but it should not be too far away to avoid excessively long cables. This room
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Pipelining and Speedup Calculation
Given a non-pipelined architecture running at 2.5GHz that takes 5 cycles to finish an instruction. You want to make it pipelined with 5 stages. The increase in hardware forces you to run the machine at 2GHz.
The only stalls are caused by:
- Memory stalls: (30% of total instructions) a stall of 50 cycles happens in 2% of the memory instructions.
- Branch stalls: (20% of total instructions) a stall of 2 cycles happens in 20% of the branch instructions.
What is the speedup?
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