Reception Study: From Literary Theory to Cultural StudiesJames L. Machor, Philip Goldstein Reception study is an important tool for understanding how readers encounter texts and absorb information. This up-to-date selection of the most important published work lays out the principles of reception study and its major theoreticians, and goes on to show how the method is being widely used in areas as varied as cultural studies, African-American studies, and the burgeoning field called the history of the book. This volume presents the only complete account of reception study today. |
Contents
THEORETICAL ACCOUNTS OF RECEPTION | 1 |
Yet Once More | 29 |
Steven Mailloux | 39 |
Tony Bennett | 61 |
LITERARY CRITICAL STUDIES OF RECEPTION | 75 |
Henry Louis Gates Jr | 105 |
Johnson | 118 |
Jane Tompkins | 133 |
John Fiske | 246 |
Andrea Press and Elizabeth Cole | 259 |
Janet Staiger | 282 |
John Frow | 294 |
LIMITATIONS AND DIFFICULTIES OF RECEPTION STUDY | 319 |
The Discourse of Value | 335 |
RECEPTION STUDIES | 345 |
PERMISSIONS | 389 |
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