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Author Mailloux, Steven.

Title Interpretive Conventions : the Reader in the Study of American Fiction.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (229 pages)
Series Cornell paperbacks
Note Print version record.
Contents 1. Literary theory and psychological reading models -- 2. Literary theory and social reading models -- 3. Practical criticism : the reader in American fiction -- 4. Textual scholarship and 'Author's final intention' -- -- 5. A typology of conventions -- 6. Interpretive conventions -- 7. Literary history and reception study -- Conclusion : reading 'the reader' -- Appendix: Reader-response criticism and teaching composition.
Summary In Interpretive Conventions, Steven Mailloux examines five influential theories of the reading process--those of Stanley Fish, Jonathan Culler, Wolfgang Iser, Norman Holland, and David Bleich.
Subject Reader-response criticism.
Criticism -- United States.
American fiction -- History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Mailloux, Steven. Interpretive Conventions : The Reader in the Study of American Fiction. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2018 9780801492853
ISBN 9781501720949
1501720945
0801492858
9780801492853
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