Style and Reader Response
Title | Style and Reader Response PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Bell |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2021-02-08 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027260370 |
Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods profiles the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches in reception-oriented research in stylistics. Collectively, the chapters investigate how real readers, players, audiences, and viewers respond to, experience, and interpret texts. Contributions to the book investigate discourse types such as contemporary literature, poetry, political speeches, digital fiction, art exhibitions, and online news discourse. The volume also exemplifies the variety of empirical approaches in reception research, with contributors drawing on a range of methods including discussion groups, interviews, questionnaires, and think-aloud protocols with data analysed from both online and offline sources. Style and Reader Response makes an important contribution to an emerging paradigm within stylistics in which verifiable insights from readers are used to generate new models and new understandings of texts across media, with each essay demonstrating the centrality of empirical research for theoretical, methodological, and/or analytical advancements within and beyond stylistics.
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Title | How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read PDF eBook |
Author | Pierre Bayard |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2010-08-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1596917148 |
In this delightfully witty, provocative book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that not having read a book need not be an impediment to having an interesting conversation about it. (In fact, he says, in certain situations reading the book is the worst thing you could do.) Using examples from such writers as Graham Greene, Oscar Wilde, Montaigne, and Umberto Eco, he describes the varieties of "non-reading"-from books that you've never heard of to books that you've read and forgotten-and offers advice on how to turn a sticky social situation into an occasion for creative brilliance. Practical, funny, and thought-provoking, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read-which became a favorite of readers everywhere in the hardcover edition-is in the end a love letter to books, offering a whole new perspective on how we read and absorb them.
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 |
"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.
Reading with Presence
Title | Reading with Presence PDF eBook |
Author | Marilyn Pryle |
Publisher | Heinemann Educational Books |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780325088679 |
"The author uses Reading Responses (RRs) as a way for students to read deeper, write more persuasively, and think differently"--
Chasing the Eastern Star
Title | Chasing the Eastern Star PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Allan Powell |
Publisher | Westminster John Knox Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780664222789 |
Argues for a method of biblical interpretation that allows for multiple legitimate meanings, providing examples from popular literature and movies while considering in length the story of the Magi and the impact of Scripture on human truth. Original.
Talking Texts
Title | Talking Texts PDF eBook |
Author | Lesley Roessing |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 141 |
Release | 2019-06-18 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1475834594 |
Talking Texts is a guide for teachers to the steps and strategies of implementing text clubs in many forms— fiction and nonfiction book clubs, textbook clubs, article clubs, and even poetry clubs—in the classroom. All strategies presented are applicable to any discipline so that text clubs can be employed across the curriculum in any grade level.
Uses of Literature
Title | Uses of Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Rita Felski |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2011-09-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1444359630 |
Uses of Literature bridges the gap between literary theory and common-sense beliefs about why we read literature. Explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we read Offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature - for recognition, enchantment, knowledge, and shock Argues for a new “phenomenology” in literary studies that incorporates the historical and social dimensions of reading Includes examples of literature from a wide range of national literary traditions