Reader-Response Criticism

Reader-Response Criticism
Title Reader-Response Criticism PDF eBook
Author Jane P. Tompkins
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 310
Release 1980-12
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780801824012

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"Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism" collects the most important theoretical statements on readers and the reading process. Its essays trace the development of reader-response criticism from its beginnings in New Criticism through its appearance in structuralism, stylistics, phenomenology, psychoanalytic criticism, and post-structuralist theory. The editor shows how each of these essays treats the problem of determinate meaning and compares their unspoken moral assumptions. In a concluding essay, she redefines the reader-response movement by placing it in historical perspective, providing the first short history of the concept of literary response. This anthology remains an indispensable guide to reader-response criticism. -- From publisher's description.

Let the Reader Understand

Let the Reader Understand
Title Let the Reader Understand PDF eBook
Author Robert M. Fowler
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 304
Release 2001-01-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 9781563383380

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Robert Fowler's groundbreaking method—reader-response criticism—as a strategy for reading the Gospel of Mark invites contemporary readers to participating in making the meaning of the Gospel. Now available in paperback.

Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory

Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory
Title Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory PDF eBook
Author Todd Davis
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 208
Release 2018-03-24
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 140391916X

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This invaluable guide by Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack offers an accessible introduction to two important movements in the history of twentieth-century literary theory. A complementary text to the Palgrave volume Postmodern Narrative Theory by Mark Currie, this new title addresses a host of theoretical concerns, as well as each field's principal figures and interpretive modes. As with other books in the Transitions series, Formalist Criticism and Reader-response Theory includes readings of a range of widely-studied texts, including Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, among others. Transitions critically explores movements in literary theory. Guiding the reader through the poetics and politics of interpretative paradigms and schools of thought, Transitions helps direct the student's own acts of critical analysis. As well as transforming the critical developments of the past by interpreting them from the perspective of the present day, each study enacts transitional readings of a number of well-known literary texts.

Performative Criticism

Performative Criticism
Title Performative Criticism PDF eBook
Author Gerry Brenner
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 248
Release 2004-02-03
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780791459447

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Genre-bending experiments that appropriate, impersonate, and speak through already-created literary characters in order to offer fresh interpretations of well-known literary works.

Using Critical Theory

Using Critical Theory
Title Using Critical Theory PDF eBook
Author Lois Tyson
Publisher Routledge
Pages 369
Release 2011-11-16
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1136645683

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Explaining both why theory is important and how to use it, Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting area in a friendly and approachable style. The new edition of this textbook is clearly structured with chapters based on major theories that students are expected to cover in their studies. Key features include: coverage of major theories including psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, lesbian/gay/queer theories, postcolonial theory, African American theory, and a new chapter on New Criticism (formalism) practical demonstrations of how to use these theories on short literary works selected from canonical authors including William Faulkner and Alice Walker a new chapter on reader-response theory that shows students how to use their personal responses to literature while avoiding typical pitfalls new sections on cultural criticism for each chapter new ‘further practice’ and ‘further reading’ sections for each chapter a useful "next step" appendix that suggests additional literary titles for extra practice. Comprehensive, easy to use, and fully updated throughout, Using Critical Theory is the ideal first step for students beginning degrees in literature, composition and cultural studies.

Return Of Reader

Return Of Reader
Title Return Of Reader PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Freund
Publisher Routledge
Pages 197
Release 2013-10-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1136496416

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First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact that such change will inevitably affect the nature of those disciplines that both reflect our society and help to shape it. Yet this is nowhere more apparent than in the central field of what may, in general terms, be called literary studies. ‘New Accents’ is intended as a positive response to the initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change. To stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study.

The Reader, the Text, the Poem

The Reader, the Text, the Poem
Title The Reader, the Text, the Poem PDF eBook
Author Louise M. Rosenblatt
Publisher SIU Press
Pages 231
Release 1994-09-21
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0809318059

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Starting from the same nonfoundationalist premises, Rosenblatt avoids the extreme relativism of postmodern theories derived mainly from Continental sources. A deep understanding of the pragmatism of Dewey, James, and Peirce and of key issues in the social sciences is the basis for a view of language and the reading process that recognizes the potentialities for alternative interpretations and at the same time provides a rationale for the responsible reading of texts.