Reader Response

Forms of Reading: Recovering the Self-as-Reader
A 1996 paper which questions theoretical claims that there is nothing intrinsically literary about literary texts and examines some empirial studies that appear to support a formalist postition.
Reader Response: Empirical Research on Literary Reading
This site from the University of Alberta, Canada, is devoted to empirical studies of literary reading and associated theoretical issues. Contains online essays, bibliography, links to relevant websites.
Wolfgang Iser: An Introduction
A Stanford University website dealing life and work of the German literary theorist.

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