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Faust, Mark – Research in the Teaching of English, 2000
Problematizes the word "experience" as it is currently being used by researchers and teachers who want to reform literature instruction in schools and colleges. Discusses how a fresh look at Dewey and Rosenblatt can reconstruct the courtroom and marketplace metaphors as sound alternatives to theories that perpetuate dualistic assumptions…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Higher Education, Literature Appreciation, Reader Response
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Sumara, Dennis J. – English Education, 1997
Attempts to represent the complexity of the web of literary relationships and their transformational space using fragmentary texts that circle around the novel "The English Patient": self as relationship and the dialogic engagement with a book by the patient himself; and the relationship and engagement with this book and with each other of a group…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Literature Appreciation, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship
Prather, Kathryn – 2001
Efferent teaching asks the student to read for a predetermined answer, focusing on another person's ideas of the text's meaning. Aesthetic teaching allows for literature to be read and experienced as art through the reader's personal transaction with the text which focuses on one's own interest to create and understand the meaning. This paper…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Language Arts
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Cothern, Nancy B.; And Others – Reading Research and Instruction, 1990
Examines two readers' images of literary characters as a basis for studying text meaning construction. Finds greater variation than commonality between the text and readers, as well as between the readers. Suggests using dialogue and rereadings in instruction to aid in developing and monitoring text understanding. (SR)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Intermediate Grades, Literature Appreciation, Reader Response
Musthafa, Bachrudin – 1996
Suggesting that the common classroom practice of literature instruction is antitheoretical and counterproductive, this paper elaborates theories of reading processes, discusses children's responses to literature, and proposes suggestions for classroom use. The first section of the paper outlines what literature instruction is expected to…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Karolides, Nicholas J. – 1991
Differences in readers' interpretations of a given text illustrate premises of the transactional or reader response theory of literature. The theory holds that: (1) meaning resides in the coming together of reader and text; (2) the reader affects the reading of the text and is affected by the text; and (3) there are potentially as many meanings to…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Epistemology, Higher Education, Literature Appreciation
Hansson, Gunnar – 1990
Finding meaning in an ordinary prose text and following a description or argument is generally considered less difficult than finding the essential message in a literary text. Sometimes, however, the emotional impact makes it easier for some readers with some texts to see and understand the meaning of some literary texts. Research from the…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Emotional Response, Foreign Countries, Literature Appreciation
Harker, W. John – 1984
During the past 15 years, a fundamental change has taken place in literary criticism, with a decline in New Criticism (literature viewed as a public object) and an increase in reader response criticism (literature viewed as a private experience). New Critics considered the meaning of a literary text to exist within the text as an independent and…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Literary Devices
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Sipe, Lawrence R. – National Reading Conference Yearbook, 1998
Examines individual literary-response styles of several first- or second-grade children by analyzing their talk about books. Finds five types of responses (analytical, intertextual, personalizing, transparent, and performative responses). Discusses the discernible differences and unique perspectives in at least some children's individual literary…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Grade 1, Grade 2, Literature Appreciation
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Durrant, Cal; And Others – English Education, 1990
Examines the effects of increasing adolescents' awareness of their own response strategies to reading. Illustrates the importance of ensuring that all students discover for themselves not only what they have learned, but how they have learned it. (SR)
Descriptors: Adolescents, English Instruction, Literature Appreciation, Metacognition
Hunt, Russell A.; Vipond, Douglas – 1987
To learn more about how people read literary texts, with a view to improving the way literature is taught in schools, a study examined the extent to which the reading of literature is affected by variations in readers, texts, and situations. Subjects, 12 skilled (faculty) readers and 96 novice (undergraduate) readers, read a short story, either in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Figurative Language, Higher Education, Literature Appreciation
Young, Beth Rapp – 1996
What is pleasing about hypertext is what has always been pleasing about genre fiction: the creative process of reading. Genre novels are written to a formula--and often called formula fiction. Critics say they are written to make money and to make money only. According to C. S. Lewis, they "rot the mind." If looked at from the standpoint…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Fiction, Higher Education, Hypermedia
Worley, Demetrice A. – 1990
Elements from literary, composition, and reader-response theory can be successfully combined in teaching an African-American literature class to college students of the dominant culture. Helping students to decode texts is of primary importance, best done by introducing students to the cultural codes used by minority writers to shape their themes.…
Descriptors: Black Literature, College English, Cultural Context, Cultural Traits
Baker, John C., Jr. – 1990
A study was conducted to write an ethnographic description of how the influences of the reader's culture and the culture depicted in a text are associated with the responses of first-semester college freshmen to a series of contemporary Appalachian short stories. Cultural backgrounds of six informants and the cultures depicted in six stories were…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences
Ames, Mildred – 1987
Noting that books for children must be just as entertaining, if not more so, than television or film in order to maintain young readers' attention, this paper discusses combining entertainment with didacticism in children's and adolescent literature. The first part of the paper offers a writer's reflections on the experience of writing science…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Authors, Childrens Literature, Critical Thinking
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