I am looking for relatively short responses to my below questions.

1.) How can I best explain to my interested friends the difference between "reader response" and "authorial intent"?

2.) Why is the issue of communication important to the the discussion of authorial intent?

3.) Who controls the meaning in interpretation: me the reader or the author and why is this important?

4.) How can I define the terms: literary meaning, allegory, and typology in one sentence?.

5.) I am having a challenge explaining the major difference between an allegory and a typology?

6.) As a Christian today should I employ these techniques and why?

What would be some good backup sources I could read up on to refine my knowledge to each of these subjects?