Readers and Reading

ISBN-13: 9780582212909 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 272 str.

Andrew Bennett

Opis

This text consists of various contributions to such areas of study as: interaction between text and reader; reader-response criticism; toward a feminist theory of reading; reading as poaching; and "Wilde's Hard Labour and the Birth of Gay Reading".

Spis treści

General Editor's Preface  Acknowledgements  Introduction  1. Wolfgang Iser, Interaction between Text and Reader  2. Vincent B Leitch, Reader-Response Criticism  3. Patrocincio P Schweickart, Reading Ourselves, Towards A Feminist Theory of Reading  4. Mary Jacobus, An Unnecessary Maze of Sign Reading  5. Wai-Chee Dimock, Feminism, New Historicism and the Reader  6. Roger Chartier, Labourers and Voyagers, From the Text to the Reader  7. Michel De Certeau, Reading as Poaching  8. Wayne Koestenbaum, Wild's Hard Labour and the Birth of Gay Reading  9. .Shoshana Felman, Renewing the Practice of Reading or Freud's Unprecedented Lesson  10. Maurice Blanchot, Reading  11. Paul de Man, The Resistance to Theory  12. J. Hillis Miller, Reading Unreadability, de Man  13. Yves Bonnefoy, Lifting our Eyes from the Page  Key Concepts  Notes on Authors  Further Reading  Index

O autorze

Andrew Bennett is Professor of Literature at the University of Bristol, UK.