Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction

by Steven Mailloux

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801492858
• ISBN13: 9780801492853
• Release Date: September 1984
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher