It has ties to reader-response criticism, and is also closely related to stylistics, whose application to literary study has been most popular in continental Europe.

Another objection to reader-response criticism is that it fails to account for the text being able to expand the reader's understanding.

This is something that is generally overlooked in reader-response criticism.

As a prominent and respected literary theorist, Fish is best known for his analysis of interpretive communities - an offshoot of reader-response criticism.

Interpretive communities are a theoretical concept stemming from reader-response criticism and invented by Stanley Fish.

The idea has been very influential in reader-response criticism, though it has also been very controversial.

It has very little to say directly about reader-response criticism, which insists that meaning is not simply found in the text but created in the process of reading.

Since it explores the reader's experience of reading the text, it can be considered an example of reader-response criticism.

Radway herself expresses preference for reader-response criticism throughout the course of the book, as opposed to the popular new criticism during the 1980s.

The concept of metacognition has also been applied to reader-response criticism.