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14 of the Best Books and Articles on: Reader-Response Criticism

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American Critics at Work: Examinations of Contemporary Literary Theories ("Learning to Read: Interpretation and Reader-Response Criticism" begins on p. 296) » Read Now
by Victor A. Kramer. 447 pgs.

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". . . A valuable anthology of essays that reflect the wide spectrum of critical opinion in American studies today. . . . [It] provides a good survey of contemporary criticism and helps to clarify the relationship of various movements to each other and to literary theory."—SOUTH ATLANTIC REVIEW
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Reading Cultures: The Construction of Readers in the Twentieth Century » Read Now
by Molly Abel Travis. 174 pgs.

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Molly Abel Travis unites reader theory with an analysis of historical conditions and various cultural contexts in this discussion of the reading and reception of twentieth-century literature in the United States.
Travis moves beyond such provisional conclusions as "the text produces the reader" or...
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Molly Abel Travis unites reader theory with an analysis of historical conditions and various cultural contexts in this discussion of the reading and reception of twentieth-century literature in the United States.
Travis moves beyond such provisional conclusions as "the text produces the reader" or "the reader produces the text" and considers the ways twentieth-century readers and texts attempt to constitute and appropriate each other at particular cultural moments and according to specific psychosocial exigencies. She uses the overarching concept of the reader in and out of the text both to differentiate the reader implied by the text from the actual reader and to discuss such in- and-out movements that occur in the process of reading as the alternation between immersion and interactivity and between role playing and unmasking.
Unlike most reader theorists, Travis is concerned with the agency of the reader. Her conception of agency in reading is informed by performance, psychoanalytic, and feminist theories. This agency involves compulsive, reiterative performance in which readers attempt to find themselves by going outside the self -- engaging in literary role playing in the hope of finally and fully identifying the self through self-differentiation. Furthermore, readers never escape a social context; they are both constructed and actively constructing in that they read as part of interpretive communities and are involved in collaborative creativity or what Kendall Walton calls "collective imagining".
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The Reader, the Text, the Poem: The Transactional Theory of the Literary Work » Read Now
by Louise M. Rosenblatt. 210 pgs.

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...bibliographical references and index. 1. Reader-response criticism. 2. Literature--History and criticism-- Theory, etc. I. Title. PN45.R587...7 Interpretation, Evaluation...
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Using Reader-Response Theory in the Introductory Literature Classroom, in College Literature » Read Now
by Larry Anderson. 5 pgs.

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After the Death of Poetry: Poet and Audience in Contemporary America » Read Now
by Vernon Shetley. 212 pgs.

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Who Says This? The Authority of the Author, the Discourse, and the Reader » Read Now
by Welch D. Everman. 142 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

...8093-1444-4 1. Literature. Modern -- History and criticism. 2. Authority in literature. I. Title...sampler-introductions to the best in new Americanist criticism written...
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The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction » Read Now
by Judith Fetterley. 198 pgs.

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Readers and Mythic Signs: The Oedipus Myth in Twentieth-Century Fiction » Read Now
by Debra A. Moddelmog. 176 pgs.

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...mythology in literature. 3. Reader-response criticism. 4. Mythology-Psychological...the Oedipus Myth and Reader Response in Pynchon's The Crying...must go outside myth...
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Virgil and the Myth of Venice: Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance » Read Now
by Craig D. Kallendorf. 251 pgs.

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This book, which is the first comprehensive study of its subject, shows that the Roman poet Virgil played an unexpectedly significant role in the shaping of Renaissance Venetian culture. Drawing on reception theory and the sociology of literature, it argues that Virgil's poetry became a best-seller...
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This book, which is the first comprehensive study of its subject, shows that the Roman poet Virgil played an unexpectedly significant role in the shaping of Renaissance Venetian culture. Drawing on reception theory and the sociology of literature, it argues that Virgil's poetry became a best-seller because it sometimes challenged, but more often confirmed, the specific moral, religious, and social values of the Venetian readers.
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This Dark Estate: A Reading of Pope » Read Now
by Thomas R. Edwards Jr. 142 pgs.

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...11: PERSPECTIVES IN CRITICISM PERSPECTIVES IN CRITICISM 1: Elements of Critical Theory 2...New Approach to Joyce 9: The Idea of Coleridges Criticism 10: Introduction to the...
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Reader-Response Criticism and the Allegorizing Reader, in Theological Studies » Read Now
by Michael Cahill. 8 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Reader-response criticism and the allegorizing reader...that one of the modern methods, reader-response criticism, provides a perspective on the...What is to be made of it?...
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Narrative Perspective and Reader Response in Marco Denevi's Rosaura a Las Diez, in Symposium » Read Now
by Myron I. Lichtblau. 12 pgs.

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...LICHTBLAU NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE AND READER RESPONSE IN MARCO DENEVIS ROSAURA A LAS DIEZ...of fiction writing is the nature of reader response as critically significant as...
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Reading Piers Plowman and the Pilgrim's Progress: Reception and the Protestant Reader » Read Now
by Barbara A. Johnson. 320 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...literature. 5. Reader-response criticism. I. Title. PR2015...the stance of reader-response critics toward...twentieth-century brands of criticism; even though they...as a...
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Reading the Newspaper: Strategies and Politics of Reader Response, Chicago, 1912-1917, in Journal of Communication » Read Now
by David Paul Nord. 28 pgs.

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...name--all drawn from reader response literary criticism--apply to journalism...central figure in reader-response liter ary criticism and in some strains...Ed.). ( 1980 )...