Interpretive Conventions The Reader in the Study of American Fiction / Steven Mailloux.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mailloux, Steven.

en Book Program, National Endowment for the Humanities Op, Author.

Contributor:

en Book Program, funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Criticism--United States.

Criticism.

Reader-response criticism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1982.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

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.

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 217-220.

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ISBN:

1-5017-2094-5

OCLC:

1031871376