Readers’ understanding of ten popular novel back covers by New York Times fiction best seller in 2017

Islami, Fauzi Dieni (2020) Readers’ understanding of ten popular novel back covers by New York Times fiction best seller in 2017. Diploma thesis, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung.

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Abstract

This research is about readers’ understanding in ten popular novel back covers by New York Times Fiction Best Seller in 2017. It is the readers’ understanding toward the novel back covers. The aim of this research is to know the ability of understanding from the readers to the novel back covers that have been read. Also, to find the strategies readers used in interpreting the text on the novel back covers. In conducting this research, the writer refers to readers’ response theory by Tyson (2006:169-204) Tyson collected the theory from several experts and divided it into five categories of strategies as follows Transactional reader‑response theory, Affective stylistics, Subjective reader‑response theory, Psychological reader‑response theory, and Social reader‑response theory. The focus of this research is the readers’ understanding and interpretation towards the text from the back cover of a novel. Alongside with it, this research supported by some other theories such as Eco (1984:4-208), Booker (1996:41-90), and Fish (1980:26-170). It used qualitative method to analyze and expose the obtained data description. The source of the data taken from readers’ interpretation by ten students of 8th semester of English Literature of Adab and Humanities faculty from State Islamic University of Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung. The result of this research shows a variety of interpretation and understanding, also the strategies used according to the theory. It found two kinds of reader such as critical reader and naïve reader. According to the strategies, there are found 17 interpretation in the Transactional reader‑response theory, 18 in the Affective stylistics, 8 in the Subjective reader‑response theory, 8 in the Psychological reader‑response theory, and 6 in the Social reader‑response theory.

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