Interpretive Conventions

Mailloux, Steven

ISBN 10: 0801414768 / ISBN 13: 9780801414763

Published by Cornell University Press, 1982

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Interpretive Conventions
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801414768
• ISBN 13: 9780801414763
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
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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.

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.