Reader-Response and Rhetorical Tradition

  Reader-Response and Rhetorical Tradition   Required Resources Text Lynn. 8. (2011). Texts and contexts: Writing about literature with critical theory. (6th. ed.)Boston, Mk Pearson Education. Chapter Three - Unifying the Work: New Criticism Chapter Four - Creating the Text: Reader-Response Criticism Lynn explains on pg. 69 that “Reader-response in all its variety is closely related to the study of rhetoric" (2011). What is rhetoric? How does the comparison to rhetoric help illuminate the reader-response perspective and how it diverges from New Criticism? Do you find this explanation of reader-response helps you understand the theory better? Or does it add to the complexity of the mode for you? Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references.