Communities of Cultural Value: Reception Study, Political Differences, and Literary History

by Philip Goldstein

Philip Goldstein is fast establishing himself as the doyen of "reception study," a discipline that assumes that the reader's interpretive practices explain a text's import. In his latest work, Communities of Cultural Value, Goldstein delves again into the realm of literary criticism, painting an absorbing picture of the changing nature of a growing, more diversified readership and its challenge to professional literary study.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739102613
• ISBN13: 9780739102619
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"