The Miall-Kuiken reader response web site provides a description of our research, listings of publications and conference papers, access to online essays (most previously published), a bibliography, and a web discussion group. Our primary focus is empirical study of readers' responses to literary texts.

Department of English Brock University Reader-Response: Various Positions Copyright John Lye, 1996; may be used, with attribution, for non-profit purposes. As is the case with all my posts for this course, this is a working document; suggestions, arguments, comments are welcome: mail me. For another approach to reception theories, see my page Who Controls the Media and Their Meanings These are ...

IMPORTANT NOTE: Reader is no longer published at Michigan Technological University. Feel free to browse our pages for info on past issues, however you need to contact Paul Kameen at the University of Pittsburgh for more information (pkameen@pitt.edu). Reader is a semiannual publication that generates discussion on reader-response theory, criticism, and pedagogy. An interdisciplinary journal, ...

The reader-response theory of Stanley Fish ...

Russ Hunt: On literary reading Reading Reader, Reading Readers. Reader 43 (Spring 2000), -51. Conditions of Reception, Conditions of Construction: The Strange Case of 'Mons, Anzac and Kut'. Poetics 26:5-6 (1999) -468. Literacy as Dialogic Involvement: Methodological Implications for the Empirical Study of Literary Reading. Empirical Approaches to Literature and Aesthetics. Advances in Discourse ...

Reader-Response Criticism In the reader-response critical approach, the primary focus falls on the reader and the process of reading rather than on the author or the text. Theoretical Assumptions: Literature is a performative art and each reading is a performance, analogous to playing/singing a musical work, enacting a drama, etc. Literature exists only when it is read; meaning is an event ...