With contributions by David Bleich, Jonathan Culler, Stanley Fish, Walker Gibson, Norman N. Holland, Wolfgang Iser, Walter Benn Michaels, Georges Poulet, Gerald Prince, and Michael Riffaterre.
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Jane Tompkins' excellent work is above all a useful introduction to current talk about readers in literary theory, talk that supports a new focus on readers reading in practical criticism... A significant contribution to contemporary critical theory.
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Essays by Reader-Response theorists,
By Robert A. Williams "libertarian" (Oberlin, OH United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism (Paperback)
Jane Tompkins came out with the first edition of this book in 1980 and, nearly thirty years later, her book remains a good collection of essays by reader-response theorists. An Introduction by Jane Tompkins situates the essays within literary theory.Reader response rose out of New Criticism, whose history is conveyed by contributer Walker Gibson. Gibson's chapter is accompanied by chapters written by Gerald Prince and Jonathan Culler (structuralism), Michael Riffaterre (stylistics), a translation of Georges Poulet by Catherine and Richard Macksey (phenomenology), Wolfgang Iser (phenomenology), Stanley Fish (phenomenology), Norman Holland (psychoanlytic), and Walter Benn Michaels (poststructuralist). A concluding chapter by Jane Tompkins reminds the reader of the changing shape of literary response. An annotated bibliography nicely concludes this helpful collection of reader-response critical theory.
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By Ashareh (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism (Paperback)
Tompkins's(ed.) _Reader-Response Criticism_ is an excellent place to start for any student of reader theory. It is a collection of essays that deals with the development of literary response theory, from New Criticism to post-structuralism.
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The Pioneering Classic,
By Justin Reilly, esq. (Boulder, CO) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism (Paperback)
A lively and thoughtprovoking tour of literary response theory. A classic and still the best work in its field.
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It is now common in the classroom as well as in criticism to distinguish carefully between the author of a literary work of art and the fictitious speaker within the work of art. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
configurative meaning, mock reader, sentence correlatives, subjective paradigm, literary competence, affective stylistics, identity theme, subjective criticism, virtual dimension, literary response Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Jonathan Culler, Michael Riffaterre, New Criticism, Wolfgang Iser, Les Chats, New Critical, New Critics, Heart of Darkness, National Council of Teachers of English, Norman Holland, Readers Reading, Robert Frost, David Bleich, Georges Poulet, Kate O'Brien, New Fork, Paradise Lost, Roland Barthes, Tom Jones, Gerald Prince, Stanley Fish, The Great Critics, The Study of Poetry, Tristram Shandy New!
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It is now common in the classroom as well as in criticism to distinguish carefully between the author of a literary work of art and the fictitious speaker within the work of art. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
configurative meaning, mock reader, sentence correlatives, subjective paradigm, literary competence, affective stylistics, identity theme, subjective criticism, virtual dimension, literary response Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Jonathan Culler, Michael Riffaterre, New Criticism, Wolfgang Iser, Les Chats, New Critical, New Critics, Heart of Darkness, National Council of Teachers of English, Norman Holland, Readers Reading, Robert Frost, David Bleich, Georges Poulet, Kate O'Brien, New Fork, Paradise Lost, Roland Barthes, Tom Jones, Gerald Prince, Stanley Fish, The Great Critics, The Study of Poetry, Tristram Shandy New!
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- The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation by Susan Suleiman on 10 pages
- Great Critics by James H. Smith on 4 pages
- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on page 88, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays (Regents Critics Ser) by Lee T. Lemon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Alexander Pope: A Life by Maynard Mack on page 211, and page 228
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- Creating Yoknapatawpha: Readers and Writers in Faulkner's Fiction (Studies in Major Literary Authors) by Owen Robinson on 7 pages
- Imagining a Place for Buddhism: Literary Culture and Religious Community in Tamil-Speaking South India by Anne E. Monius on 6 pages
- Utopian Audiences: How Readers Locate Nowhere (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book) by Kenneth M. Roemer on 4 pages
- Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by Lois Tyson on page 192, page 193, and page 195
- Critical Theory Today : A User-Friendly Guide (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by Lois Tyson on page 192, page 193, and page 195
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