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Readers and Reading provides an excellent and wide-ranging introduction to the field of reading theory. This collection of important essays from such writers and critics as Wolfgang Iser, Mary Jacobus, Roger Chartier, Michel de Certeau, Shoshana Felman, Maurice Blanchot, Paul de Man, and Yves Bonnefoy brings together and introduces recent developments in the field. It offers comprehensive coverage of all the important areas and looks beyond classic 'reader-response criticism', showing how key issues in reading theory are also central to criticism and theory generally.
List of contents
General Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1.
Wolfgang Iser, Interaction between Text and Reader 2.
Vincent B Leitch, Reader-Response Criticism 3.
Patrocincio P Schweickart, Reading Ourselves, Towards A Feminist Theory of Reading 4.
Mary Jacobus, An Unnecessary Maze of Sign Reading 5.
Wai-Chee Dimock, Feminism, New Historicism and the Reader 6.
Roger Chartier, Labourers and Voyagers, From the Text to the Reader 7.
Michel De Certeau, Reading as Poaching 8.
Wayne Koestenbaum, Wild's Hard Labour and the Birth of Gay Reading 9.
.Shoshana Felman, Renewing the Practice of Reading or Freud's Unprecedented Lesson 10.
Maurice Blanchot, Reading 11.
Paul de Man, The Resistance to Theory 12.
J. Hillis Miller, Reading Unreadability, de Man 13.
Yves Bonnefoy, Lifting our Eyes from the Page
Key Concepts Notes on Authors Further Reading Index
About the author
Andrew Bennett is Professor of Literature at the University of Bristol, UK.
