HISTORY

 

ANCIENT THOUGHT (c.700 BCE-300 CE):

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Classical Literature

 

MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (c.300-c.1400):

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Medieval Literature

 

RENAISSANCE THOUGHT (c.1400-c.1600):

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Renaissance Literature

 

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c.1600-c.1785):

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Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Romanticism (c.1785-1830):
bullet Romantic Literature
bullet Mid-Century & Fin de Siècle (1830-1900) Thought:
bullet 'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Analytic Philosophy
bullet Continental Theory:
bullet Idealism
bullet Marxism
bullet Phenomenology, Existentialism, Hermeneutics
bullet Psychoanalysis
bullet (Post-)Structuralisms:
bullet Deconstruction
bullet Deleuzean Theory
bullet Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)
bullet Foucauldian Discourse Theory
bullet Semiology / Structuralism
bullet Structuralist Marxism
bullet Structuralist Psychoanalysis
bullet Feminist Theory
bullet Modernism, Myth & New Criticism
bullet Post-colonial Theory
bullet Pragmatism
 
bullet Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Asia
bullet East Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CANADIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Europe
bullet Eastern Europe:
bullet Russia:
bullet Literature
bullet Northern Europe:
bullet Literature
bullet Southern Europe:
bullet Greece:
bullet Literature
bullet Italy:
bullet Literature
bullet Spain:
bullet Literature
bullet Western Europe:
bullet France:
bullet Literature
bullet Germany:
bullet Literature
bullet UK and Eire:
bullet Literature

 

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

bullet Arabic/Islamic Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Israeli/Jewish Thought:
bullet Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

bullet African American Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Native American Thought

 

TOPICS

 

ARTS:

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Architecture

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Film

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Literature:

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Audience

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Author

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Literary Form & Genre:

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Drama

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Poetry

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Prose

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Literary History, Intertextuality, Canonicity

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Metaliterature

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Representation

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Music

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

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Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, & Logic

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Rhetoric, Discourse Theory, & Argumentation Theory

 

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Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

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Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science

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Psychology

 

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Gender

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Race

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Sexuality

 

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Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

 

METAPHILOSOPHY / METATHEORY

 

MORALITY:

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Morality and Literature

 

NATURE (NATURAL SCIENCES):

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Nature and Literature

 

RELIGION:

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Religion and Literature

 

SOCIETY (SOCIAL SCIENCES):

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Anthropology

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Cultural Studies

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Economics

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Human Geography

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Law

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Politics

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Sociology

 

SPORTS
 

GENERAL

ASSOCIATIONS

CAREERS

CONFERENCES

JOURNALS

PHOTOS

PRIMARY SOURCES

SECONDARY SOURCES

TEACHING AND LEARNING

WWW GATEWAYS

 

 

THE AUDIENCE
(THE READER / CRITIC / VIEWER / SPECTATOR; THE 'PRAGMATIC' POLE; READER-RESPONSE THEORY)

ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

  • Biennial Conference, Purdue University, September 11-13, 2009

  • Biennial Conference, University of Missouri, Kansas City, September 27-29, 2007

  • Beyond the Book: Contemporary Cultures of Reading, University of Birmingham, September 1-2, 2007

  • Subversive Re/Viewing: Readings, Communities, Practices, Faculty of Media, Art and Communications, University of Gloucestershire, December 2, 2006

  • American Reception Study: Reconsiderations and New Directions, University of Delaware, September 29-October 1, 2005

  • Audiences: Fans, Communities, Spectators, Critics, Viewers, Readers, Players, Listeners, Spectators, Browsers, Participants,  Consumers, and Conceptual Models, 10th Annual Conference, Association for Research in Popular Fictions, Liverpool John Moores University, November 21-22, 2004

COURSES

JOURNALS

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:
  • Anthologies:
    • Bennett, Andrew, ed.  Readers and Reading.  London: Longman, 1995.
    • Brooker, Will, and Deborah Jermyn, eds.  The Audience Studies Reader.  London: Routledge, 2002.
    • Garvin, Harry, ed.  Theories of Reading, Looking, Listening.  Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1981.
    • Gloversmith, Frank, ed.  The Theory of Reading.  Brighton: Harvester, 1984.
    • Goodman, Kenneth S., ed.  The Psycholinguistic Nature of the Reading Process.  Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1968.
    • Reading, Interpretation, ResponseGenre 10 (1977).
    • Readers and Spectators: Some Views and ReviewsNew Literary History 8 (1976).
    • Suleiman, Susan J., and Inge Crosman, eds.  The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation.  New Jersey: Princeton UP, 1980.
    • Tompkins, Jane, ed. Reader-Response Criticism: from Formalism to Structuralism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1980.
    • Warning, Rainer, ed.  Rezeptionsastehtik.  Munich: Fink, 1975.
  • Selected Individual Works:
    • Altieri, Charles.  The Particulars of Rapture: an Aesthetics of the Affects.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2004.

    • Bennett, Tony.  "Texts in History: the Determinations of Readings and their Texts."  Post-Structuralism and the Question of History.  Ed. Derek Attridge, et al.  Cambridge: CUP, 1987.  63-81.

    • Bennett, Tony.  "Texts, Readers, Reading Formations."  Modern Literary Theory: a Reader.  Ed. Philip Rice and Patricia Waugh.  London: Edward Arnold, 1989.  206-220.
    • Booth, Wayne.  "Beliefs and the Reader."  The Rhetoric of Fiction.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1961.

    • Bourdieu, Pierre.  "Reading, Readers, the Literant, Literature."  In Other Words: Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology.  Trans. Matthew Adamson.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1990.

    • Davidson, Cathy N.  Revolution and the World: the Rise of the Novel in America.  Oxford: OUP, 1986.

    • De Maria, Robert.  "The Ideal Reader: a Critical Fiction."  PMLA 93 (1978): 463-474.

    • Dillon, George.  Language Processing and the Reading of Literature: Towards a Model of Comprehension.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1978.

    • Gibson, Walker.  "Authors, Speakers, Readers, and Mock Readers."  College English 11 (1950): 265-269.

    • Glowinski, Michal.  "Reading, Interpretation, Reception."  New Literary History 11 (1979): 75-81.

    • Harding, D. W.  "Reader and Author."  Experience into Words: Essays on Poetry.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1963.  163-174.

    • Harding, D. W.  "Psychological Processes in the Reading of Fiction."  British Journal of Aesthetics 2 (1962): 133-147.

    • Harding, D. W.  "The Role of the Onlooker."  Scrutiny 6 (1937): 247-258.

    • Jacobs, Alan.  A Theology of Reading.

    • Kennedy, Alan.  The Psychology of Reading.  London: Methuen, 1984.

    • Mailloux, Steven J.  "Interpretation."  Critical Terms for Literary Studies.  Ed. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990.  121-134.
    • Mailloux, Steven J.  "Learning to Read: Interpretation and Reader-Response Criticism."  Studies in the Literary Imagination 12 (1979): 93-108.
    • Mailloux, Steven J.  "Reader-Response Criticism."  Genre 10 (1977): 413-431.
    • Mailloux, Steven J.  Rhetorical Power.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1989.

    • Mailloux, Steven J.  Interpretative Conventions: the Reader in the Study of American Fiction.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1982.

    • Phelan, James.  Reading People, Reading Plots: Character, Progression and the Interpretation of Narrative.  1989.

    • Prince, Gerald.  "Introduction à l'étude du narrataire."  Poétique 14 (1973): 178-196. 

      • "Introduction to the Study of the Narratee."  Reader-Response Criticism: from Formalism to Structuralism.  Ed. Jane Tompkins.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1980.  7-25.

    • Rabinowitz, Peter J.  Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1987.

    • Rabinowitz, Peter J.  "Truth in Fiction: a Reexamination of Audiences."  Critical Inquiry 4 (1977): 121-141.

    • Rosenblatt, Louise.  Making Meaning with Texts: Selected Essays.  2005.

    • Rosenblatt, Louise.  “The Transactional Theory of Reading and Writing.”  Theoretical Models of Reading.  Ed. R. B. Ruddell, M. R. Ruddell, and H. Singer.  Newark: International Reading Association, 1994.  1057-1092.

    • Rosenblatt, Louise.  The Reader, the Text, the Poem: the Transactional Theory of the Literary Work.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1978.

    • Rosenblatt, Louise.  Literature as Exploration.  New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1937.

    • Scholes, Robert.  Protocols of Reading.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1989.

    • Slatoff, Walter.  With Respect to Readers: Dimensions of Literary Response.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1970.

    • Slawinski, Janusz.  "Reading and Reader in the Literary Historical Process."  New Literary History 19 (1988): 521-539.

    • Smith, Frank.  Reading.  Cambridge: CUP, 1985.
    • Smith, Frank.  Understanding Reading: a Psycholinguistic Analysis of Reading and Learning to Read.  New York: Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 1978.
    • Steig, Michael.  Stories of Reading: Subjective and Literary Understanding.  1989.

    • Todorov, Tzvetan.  "Reading as Construction."  Genres in Discourse.  Trans. Catherine Porter.  Cambridge: CUP, 1990.  39-41.

    • Tompkins, Jane P.  Sensational Designs: the Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860.  1985.

    • Wimmers, Inge Crosman.  Poetics of Reading: Approaches to the Novel.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1988.

  • Socio-Historical Studies:

    • Altick, Richard D.  The English Common Reader: a Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1932.

    • Chartier, Roger.  "Frenchness in the History of the Book: From the History of Publishing to the History of Reading."  Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 97.2 (1988): 299-329.

    • Klancher, Jon P.  The Making of English Reading Audience, 1790-1832.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1987.

    • Leavis, Q. D.  Fiction and the Reading Public.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1932.

    • McAleer, Joseph.  Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain, 1914-1950.  Oxford: OUP, 1992.

    • Rose, Jonathan.  "Rereading the English Common Reader: a Preface to a History of Audiences."  Journal of the History of Ideas 53 (1992): 47-70.

    • Trotter, David.  The Making of the Reader: Language and Subjectivity in Modern American, English and Irish Poetry.  London: Macmillan, 1984.

On-Line:

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:
  • Anthologies:
    • Goldstein, Philip, and James Machor, eds.  New Directions in Reception Study.  Oxford: OUP, 2008.
  • Selected Individual Works:
    • Abrams, M. H.  "Pragmatic Theories."  The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition.  Oxford: OUP, 1953.  14-21.
    • Berg, Temma.  "Psychologies of Reading."  Tracing Literary Theory.  Ed. Joseph Natoli.  Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1987.  248-277.
    • Berger, Carole.  "Viewing as Action: Film and Reader Response Criticism."  Literature - Film Quarterly 6 (1978): 144-151.
    • Crosman, Inge.  "Bibliography of Audience-Oriented Criticism."  The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation.  Ed. Susan J. Suleiman and Inge Crosman.  New Jersey: Princeton UP, 1980.  401-424.
    • Freund, Elizabeth.  The Return of the Reader: Reader-Response Criticism.  London: Methuen, 1987.  
    • Harris, Wendell V.  "Criticism."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.  49-55.
    • Harris, Wendell V.  "Interpretation."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.  172-175.
    • Harris, Wendell V.  "Reader."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.  313-323.
    • Hohendahl, Peter Uwe.  "Introduction to Reception Aesthetics."  Trans. Marc Silberman.  New German Critique 10 (1977): 29-63.
    • Holub, Robert C.  Crossing Borders: Reception Theory, Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1992.
    • Holub, Robert C.  Reception Theory: a Critical Introduction.  London: Methuen, 1984.
    • Leitch, Vincent.  American Literary Criticism: from the Thirties to the Nineties.  New York: Columbia UP, 1988.  211-237; 252-259.
    • Lernout, Gert.  "Reception Theory."  Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994.  610-611.
    • Machor, James L.  Reception Study: from Literary Theory to Cultural Studies.  London: Routledge, 2000.
    • Newton, K. M.  "Reception Theory and Reader-Response Criticism."  Interpreting the Text: a Critical Introduction to Literary Theory.  Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990.  
    • Platz, Norbert H.  "Analysing the Reader: a Critical Survey of Recent Psychoanalytical Theories of Reading."  The Art of Listening.  Ed.  Graham McGregor and R. S. White.  London: Croom Helm, 1986.  87-101.
    • Pratt, Mary Louise.  "Interpretive Strategies / Strategic Interpretations: On Anglo-American Reader-Response Criticism."  Boundary 2 11 (1982-1983): 201-231.
    • Rabinowitz, Peter J.  "Reader-Response Theory and Criticism."  Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994.  606-609.
    • Rabinowitz, Peter J.  "Whirl Without End: Audience-Oriented Criticism."  Contemporary Literary Theory.  Ed. Douglas Atkins and Laura Morrow.  London: Macmillan, 1989.  81-100. 
    • Ray, William.  "Recognising Recognition: the Intra-Textual and Extra-Textual Critical Persona."  Diacritics 7.4 (1977): 20-33.
    • Segers, Rien T.  "Readers, Text, and Author: Some Implications of Rezeptions-asthetik.."  Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 24 (1975): 15-23.
    • Selden, Raman.  "Reader-Oriented Theories."  A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory.  Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1985.  114-133.
    • Suleiman, Susan J. "Introduction: Varieties of Audience-Oriented Criticism"  The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation.  Ed. Susan J. Suleiman and Inge Crosman.  New Jersey: Princeton UP, 1980.  3-44.
    • Tompkins, Jane.  "Bibliography."  Reader-Response Criticism: from Formalism to Structuralism.  Ed. Jane Tompkins.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1980.  233-263.
    • Tompkins, Jane.  "The Reader in History: the Changing Shape of Literary Response."  Reader-Response Criticism: from Formalism to Structuralism.  Ed. Jane Tompkins.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1980.  202-253.

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