Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) - Softcover

Mailloux, Steven

 
9780801492853: Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)
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ISBN 10: 0801492858 ISBN 13: 9780801492853
Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1984

Synopsis

In Interpretive Conventions, Steven Mailloux provides a general introduction to reader-response criticism while developing his own specific reader-oriented approach to literature. He examines five influential theories of the reading process―those of Stanley Fish, Jonathan Culler, Wolfgang Iser, Norman Holland, and David Bleich. He goes on to argue the need for a more comprehensive reader-response criticism based on a consistent social model of reading. He develops such a reading model and also discusses American textual editing and literary history.

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About the Author

Steven Mailloux is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Rhetorical Power and Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics, both published by Cornell University Press.

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Publisher
Cornell University Press
Publication date
1984
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0801492858
ISBN 13 
9780801492853
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
230

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