Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
Fall 1981
Abstract
The Reader in the Text is a useful collection of essays on an important topic in contemporary criticism—the role of readers in interpreting literary works. Contributors include some of the most widely-read writers on the subject (Jonathan Culler, Wolfgang Iser, Gerald Prince, Norman Holland) as well as several critics less familiar to American readers (Jacques Leenhardt and Karlheinz Stierle, among many others). Susan Suleiman adds a helpful introduction on the "varieties of audience-oriented criticism" and Inge Crosman provides an annotated bibliography.
Identifier
10.1353/phl.1981.0005
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
City
Baltimore, MD
Repository Citation
Fischer, M. (1981). The reader in the text: Essays on audience and interpretation [Review of the book The reader in the text: Essays on audience and interpretation, S.R. Suleiman & I. Crosman (Eds.)]. Philosophy and Literature, 5(2), 233-234. doi: 10.1353/phl.1981.0005
Publication Information
Philosophy and Literature