Tompkins, Jane P.
Reader-response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-structuralism
- ISBN 13:
- 9780801824012
- author:
- Tompkins, Jane P.
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 1980
- Pages:
- 304
- Dimensions:
- 22.4 x 15 x 2.3 cm
- Genre:
- Literary theory
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism collects key theoretical statements on readers and the reading process. It explores how different approaches, from New Criticism to post-structuralist theory, address the issue of determinate meaning and their underlying moral assumptions. The essays in this collection compare and contrast various critical perspectives, including structuralism, stylistics, phenomenology, psychoanalytic criticism, and post-structuralist theory. A concluding essay provides a historical perspective on the reader-response movement, tracing its development and evolution over time. This anthology remains an indispensable guide to reader-response criticism, making it a valuable resource for courses in literary criticism and theory, as well as a useful reference work for scholars and students of literature, critical theory, and the philosophy of art.
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