Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism

by Jane P. Tompkins (Editor)

With contributions by David Bleich, Jonathan Culler, Stanley Fish, Walker Gibson, Norman N. Holland, Wolfgang Iser, Walter Benn Michaels, Georges Poulet, Gerald Prince, and Michael Riffaterre.

Genres: Theory, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, Academic

304 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1980

Reviews

[Sirpa Grierson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really for a college level or higher, but the ideas are applicable to anyone interested in reader response criticism.

[Jeff Keehr · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this for my Literary Criticism course at Penn State.

[Mattschratz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid stuff.

[Jason · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'll admit that there are a few essays I did not read, but this is, on the whole, a great collection.

[TinTin Kalaw]

I have only read a few of the essays that are related to my thesis :))