Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism / Edition 1

by Jane P. Tompkins

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801824012
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	12/01/1980
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.72(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jane P. Thompkins has written widely on the work of Charles Borckden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kate Chopin, and Henry James. Her recent work includes Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work from American Fiction, West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns, and A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned.

Editorial Reviews

Jane Tompkins' excellent work is above all a useful introduction to current talk about readers in literary theory, talk that supports a new focus on readers reading in practical criticism . . . A significant contribution to contemporary critical theory.
--Modern Language Notes

From the Publisher

Jane Tompkins' excellent work is above all a useful introduction to current talk about readers in literary theory, talk that supports a new focus on readers reading in practical criticism . . . A significant contribution to contemporary critical theory.

Modern Language Notes