Title: Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Date: 2018
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1501728067
ISBN 13: 9781501728068
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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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. He develops such a reading model and also discusses American textual editing and literary history.

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Steven Mailloux is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Rhetorical Power and Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics, both published by Cornell University Press.

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