"The Man that Was a Thing": Criticism and Uncle Tom.

Harris, R. Allen

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Publication Date: 1988

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"The Man that Was a Thing": Criticism and Uncle Tom.

Harris, R. Allen

College English, v50 n6 p649-63 Oct 1988

Claims that Tom is a character eminently suited to the multiplicity and subjectivity arguments of reader response criticism (RRC), that meaning is a relation between an author, a text, and a reader, not an object, as New Criticism held, and not a procedure, as RRC assumes. (RAE)

Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship, United States Literature

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