Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Literary Theory and Psychological Reading Models -- 2. Literary Theory and Social Reading Models -- 3. Practical Criticism: The Reader in Am erican Fiction -- 4. Textual Scholarship and "Author's Final Intention" -- 5. A Typology of Conventions -- 6. Interpretive Conventions -- 7. Literary History and Reception Study -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Reader-Response Criticism and Teaching Composition -- Bibliographical Note -- Index
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-220) and index
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