Return Of Reader

by Elizabeth Freund

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415291453
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/17/2002
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: the order of reading; Part I Precursors; Chapter 1 Richards revisited; Chapter 2 New Criticism and the avoidance of reading; Part II Reader-response criticisms; Chapter 3 The inscribed reader: Jonathan Culler and structuralist poetics; Chapter 4 Literature in the reader: Stanley Fish and affective poetics; Chapter 5 The relation of the reader to daydreaming: Norman Holland and transactive criticism; Chapter 6 The peripatetic reader: Wolfgang Iser and the aesthetics of reception; In conclusion: reading reading;