The master's thesis aims to emphasize what adults can learn in reading groups formed in public libraries. We derive from the practices of non-formal education in reading groups that enable members of public libraries to be active, creative and to personally develop while learning. They enable individuals to share their life stories, reading experiences, attitudes, and feelings with each other. The reading group is considered as a learning area where the group and mentor play an important role. The theory of reception aesthetics was used to explain the reader's response to a literary work. Based on interviews with mentors and participants of three reading groups, we are learning that participants, because of their participation in the reading group, are changing their reference frame, views and way of thinking. The master's thesis also aims to show the reader's response to a selected literary work called Balada o Sneguročki. The story does not always have a happy ending and is not written only for children, but for adults as well, for whom it is intended. On the basis of the theory of reception aesthetics, which put the reader and his perception of literary works in the foreground in the 60s of the 20th century, we are researching the response of three participants of the reading groups before reading literary work, while it and after that.
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