Reader Response


The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response
Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism
The Reader, the Text, the Poem: The Transactional Theory of the Literary Work
Shooting Kabul
The Practice of Everyday Life
Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts and Contexts
Aesthetic Experience and Literary Hermeneutics (Theory & History of Literature)
Toward an Aesthetic of Reception
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Wolfgang Iser
The Range of Interpretation
The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett
The Rhetoric of Fiction
Religious Reading: The Place of Reading in the Practice of Religion
Demonizing the Queen of Sheba: Boundaries of Gender and Culture in Postbiblical Judaism and Medieval Islam (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism)
‘Our Place in al-Andalus’: Kabbalah, Philosophy, Literature in Arab Jewish Letters (Cultural Memory in the Present)
William Golding
There have been so many interpretations of the story that I'm not going to choose between them. Make your own choice. They contradict each other, the various choices. The only choice that really matters, the only interpretation of the story, if you want one, is your own. Not your teacher's, not your professor's, not mine, not a critic's, not some authority's. The only thing that matters is, first, the experience of being in the story, moving through it. Then any interpretation you like. If it's ...more
William Golding, Lord of the Flies