New Directions in American Reception Study

by James L. Machor and Philip Goldstein

Book Overview

Contemporary reception study has developed a diversity of approaches and methods, including the institutional, textual, historical, authorial, and reader-response, which, to a greater or lesser extent, acknowledge the various ways in which readers have found texts-- literature, television shows, movies, and newspapers--meaningful. This collection emphasizes that new diversity, examining movies, newspapers, fans, television shows, and traditional American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195320883
• ISBN13: 9780195320886
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"