 
Number 43 Spring 2000
Editorial note
Elizabeth A. Flynn........................................................i
Contextualizing Coram's Foundling Hospital: Dickens's Use and Readers' Interests
Wendell V. Harris............................................................1
Future Directions
Studying Responses within Activity Systems
Richard Beach..............................................................20
Reader, Readers, Reading
Temma Berg..................................................................25
The Changing Reader
David Bleich.................................................................31
Dissociation of Sensibility Revisited: The Logical Priority
of Direct Response and Feminist Pedagogy
Deanne Bogdan................................................................33
The Unconscious Redux
John Clifford................................................................38
For Intimate Readings
Janet Ellerby................................................................42
Reading Reader, Reading Readers
Russell Hunt.................................................................47
Empirical Sutdies in the Reading of Narrative?
Sadly, Not Yet
Michael Kearns...............................................................52
Reading's Transformational Power
AnaLouise Keating............................................................57
From Silent/Silenced Reading to Reading Aloud,
The Impact of Reader on a Discipline in Flux
Kathleen McCormick & Gary Waller............................................60
Authorial Readers, Flesh and Blood Readers, and the
Recursiveness of Rhetorical Reading
James Phelan................................................................65
Reading as Communicative Action
Patrocinio P. Schweickart...................................................70
Reader-Response Theory, Social Criticism and Personal Writing
Barbara Frey Waxman..........................................................76
Final Reflections
Editing and Exhaustion
Elizabeth A. Flynn...........................................................80
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Number 42 Fall 1999
Reading and Technical Communication
Editorial note
Elizabeth A. Flynn.........................................................
Conducting Reader Research in Technical Communication
Brad Connatser............................................................1
Between Reading and Encountering in Human-(Technical)
Text Interaction
Pirkko Raudaskoski.......................................................30
Review Essay: Reading, Agency, and Participatory Pedagogy:
Recent Titles in Technical Communication
Michael Moore............................................................62
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Number 41 Spring 1999
Editorial note
Elizabeth A. Flynn.........................................................
Lily Bart's Fractured Alliances and Wharton's
Appeal to the Middle Brow Reader
Melanie Dawson............................................................1
The 'Truth' about Reading: Interpretive Instability in the
Evolution of Anthony Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange"
Vincent A. O'Keefe.......................................................31
Critical Realism or Black Modernism?: The Reception of
"Their Eyes Were Watching God"
Philip Goldstein.........................................................54
Review Essay: "Reader Response" in the Nineties
Elizabeth A. Flynn.......................................................74
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Number 40 Fall 1998
Editorial note
Elizabeth A. Flynn.........................................................
The Student and the Whale: Reading the Two Moby-Dicks
Michael Kearns............................................................1
He Reads, She Speaks: How Narrative Form Conveys Conflicting Values
in "Corrine or Italy"
Ellen Peel...............................................................28
Can Metafiction Be Read Straight: Or When the Pen in Your Hand is Not Your Own
Michael Hardin...........................................................53
Bibliography of Recently Published Books on Reading
Denise Heikinen..........................................................79
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Number 38/39 Fall 1997, Spring 1998
Special Double Issue on Popular Culture
Guest edited by Linda Adler-Kassner and Sherry Linkon
Editorial note
Elizabeth A. Flynn.........................................................
"And a little child shall lead them": Children's Cabinets of Curiosities 1790-1860
Shirley T. Wajda..........................................................5
Horse Stories and Romance Fiction: Variants or Alternative Texts of Feminine Identity
Mary Traschel............................................................20
"Isn't it just a movie?": Lessons Learned from Oliver Stone and Platoon
D. Melissa Hilbish.......................................................42
"More Often Than Not, It's Put in a Bag": Culture and the Comic Book Collector
Michael Sokolow..........................................................63
What Happens Next? How Reading Genre Fiction is Like Reading Hypertext Fiction
Beth Rapp Young..........................................................83
"Why Won't You Just Read It?": E.C. Comic Book Readers and Community in the 1950s
Linda Adler-Kassner.....................................................101
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Number 37 Spring 1997
Editorial note
Elizabeth A. Flynn....................................................iv
Critical Discourse Theory and Reader Response:
How Discourses Constitute Reader Stances and Social Contexts
Richard Beach..........................................................1
Lolita: A Text for Rereading
David Cooper..........................................................27
Religious Skirmishes: When the Ethnic Outsider
Cannot Hear "The Loudest Voice"
Karen Surman Paley....................................................43
Two Hamlets, One Text: A Semiotic Analysis
Justin Edward Everett.................................................59
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Number 35/36 Spring/Fall 1996
Editorial note
Elizabeth A. Flynn...................................................7
Introduction: Reading and Readership from an International Perspective
Steven Totosy de Zepetnek............................................9
How Readers Come to Terms with the Unfamiliar: The Social Context of
the Crossed-Cultural Classroom
Ingrid Johnston......................................................12
How Differently Do Ethnic Minority Children Read? The Reading
Behavior of Moroccan, Turkish, and Italian Children in Flanders
Rita Ghesquiere......................................................21
Children's Literature and the Changing Status of Child Readers
Jean Perrot..........................................................39
Reading and Writing Appreciation Slovene Elementary Schools: Results
of a Survey
Milena Blazic........................................................55
Readers' Experience of Textual Meaning: An Empirical Approach
Maj Asplund Carlsson.................................................67
How Readers Come to Terms with the Unfamiliar: The Invisible Trajectory
of Individual Development
Margaret Mackey......................................................80
Publishers, Fiction, and Feminism: Riding the 'Second Wave'
Wendy Waring.........................................................94
Readership Research, Cultural Studies, and Canadian Scholarship
Steven Totosy Zepetnek...............................................108
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Number 33/34 Spring/Fall 1995
Editorial note
Elizabeth A. Flynn...................................................6
Introduction
Mariolina Salvatori..................................................8
What Does Theory Have To Do With Me? Reading Literacy in a Teacher
Preparation Program
Kathryn Flannery.....................................................13
Teaching Writing Teachers to Teach Reading for Writing
Wendy Bishop.........................................................38
Teaching Against the Teaching Against Pedagogy: Reading Our Classrooms,
Writing Ourselves
Lad Tobin............................................................68
Teachings Teaching: Construction and Reflection in the Classroom
Martin Bickman.......................................................85
The Teaching of Teaching: Theoretical Reflections
Paul Kameen and Mariolina Salvatori..................................103
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Number 32 Fall 1994
Editorial note
Elizabeth A. Flynn...................................................IV
Iser's Theory of Aesthetic Response: A Brief Critique
Peter Swirsky........................................................1
Aesthetic Resonance: Beyond the Sign in Literature
Jerry Farber.........................................................16
Using Writing to Develop Student Readers: An Example from the Classroom
Richard Straub/Gay Lynn Crossley.....................................34
Exploring an Evocation of a Literary work:
Processes and Possibilities of an Artistic Response to Literature
Peter Smagorinsky/John Coppock.......................................61
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Number 31 Spring 1994
Note.........................................................................iv
Reader-Response: A Visual and Aesthetic Experience
Sonya Darlington.....................................................11
Second Thoughts: Prolegomenon to Re-Readings
David Galef..........................................................29
President Reagan as a Cross Cultural Communicator in China
Susan Ross...........................................................55
The Viewer Viewed: The Reception of Ethnographic Films
Jay Ruby.............................................................75
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Number 30 Fall 1993
Gender and Reading
Note.........................................................................iv
Toward a Theory of Gendered Reading
Harriet Kramer Linkin................................................1
From Reading "Against" to Reading "With": Feminism and the
Subject of Reading
Liedeke Plate........................................................27
Cinderella in the Classroom:(Mis)Reading Alice Munro's "Red Dress-1946"
Charlotte Goodman....................................................49
Negotiating Gaps in Reader Anthologies:The Role of Context in
Selections by Women
Teresa Kynell........................................................65
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Number 29 Spring 1993
Notes From the Editors.......................................................i
Through Plexiglas Darkly: Loss of Agency In Joan Didion's Salvador
William D. Atwill....................................................1
A Psychology of Terror
Janet Ellerby........................................................8
The Struggle for Verbal Consciousness
Donnalee Frega.......................................................14
Textual analysis, agency and Joan Didion's Salvador
Daniel W. Noland.....................................................21
Torward an Ecofeminism
Lee Schweninger......................................................27
The Catholic Church a World of Masculine Violence: A Post Modern
Feminist Response
Barbara Waxmen.......................................................42
An index to issues 1 - 29....................................................38
Announcements
Errata
Subscription Form
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Number 28 Fall 1992
A Note from the Editors......................................................i
What Hypertext Can Do that Print Narratives Cannot
J. Yellowlees Douglas................................................1
Form(ed) From the Inside Out:Teaching the Reading of Poetry Through
Computers
Leslie A. Donovan....................................................23
Reading Between Worlds:Computer-Mediated Intercultural Responses
To Asian Literature
James C.. Greenlaw...................................................37
Hemingway and Basic Writers: A Computer-Based Reader-Response Study
Thomas J. Reynolds...................................................52
The CA Literature Class: A Perspective
John A. Evans........................................................69
A Theater of Responses: Using a Computer Bulletin Board to Enhance
Interpretation
Janet Mason Ellerby..................................................80
Announcements................................................................93
Subscription form............................................................99
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Number 27 Spring 1992
Notes from the Editors.......................................................i
To Break the Frozen Sea Inside
Janet Landman........................................................1
Reading The Middle Passages
Molly Abel Travis....................................................12
Reading and Writing Culture: A Group Memoir
Joseph Trimmer.......................................................21
Reading The Right Thing
Joseph Harris........................................................29
Announcements................................................................48
Advertisements...............................................................51
Subscription Form............................................................64
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Number 26 Fall 1991
A Note from the Editor.......................................................i
Evolution of a Scholarly Forum:
Reader, 1977-1988
Carol Berkenkotter...................................................1
Stories of Reading Pentagogy:
Problems and Possibilities
Michael Steig........................................................27
Telling the Reader What to Do:
Wordsworth and the Fenwick Notes
Scott Simpkins.......................................................39
The Mirror of the Text:
Reading Gilbert Sorrentino's Mulligan stew
Sharon Buzzard.......................................................65
Reader survey................................................................78
Announcements................................................................83
Advertisements...............................................................86
Subscription Form............................................................90
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Number 25 Spring 1991
A Note from the Editor.......................................................i
Half Someone Else's: Theories, Stories, and the Conversation of Literature
Jo Keroes............................................................1
Reader, Parent, Coach: Defining the Profession by Our Practice of Response
Cheryl Geisler.......................................................17
Icon and Interpretation:Reading Durer's Melencolia I
Jeffrey Carroll .....................................................34
Politics as Ideological Hermeneutics: American Fiction and the
Historicized Reader of the Early Nineteenth Century
James L. Machor......................................................49
Call for papers..............................................................65
Errata.......................................................................66
Advertisements...............................................................67
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Number 24 Fall 1990
A Note from the Editor.......................................................i
"Traveling Through the Dark": Teachers and Students Reading and Writing
Together
Wendy Bishop.........................................................1
Bloody Deconstruction or the Semiotics of Surgery
Janice M. Wolff......................................................21
Split Text/Split Reader: The Narrattee of Jeremias Gotthelf
James W. Rankin......................................................32
To Read and Reread: Well's Tono-Bungay
Anne B. Simpson......................................................47
"One is Not Equal To Many" (Oedipus Tyrannus 836)
Judith Perkins.......................................................60
Book Review
Bill Jenkins.........................................................72
Announcements/Call for papers................................................75
Advertisements...............................................................76
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Number 23 Spring 1990
Reading the Image
A Note from the Editor.......................................................i
Introduction
Richard Leppert......................................................1
Jenny Holzer and the Rhetoric of Violence
Dale M. Bauer........................................................10
Christopher Latham Sholes, The Typewriter,
And Women's Economic Emancipation: A Reading of an Image
Mary C. Pinard.......................................................22
AIDS: Reading the Visions, Hearing the Voices
Pauline Moore........................................................36
The Culture of the Bath: Cigarette Advertising and the Representation
of Leisure
Diana George and Diana Shoos.........................................50
Announcement and Errata......................................................67
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Number 22 Fall 1989
Women Reading/Reading Women
A Note from the Editor.......................................................i
Introduction
Pamela L. Caughie and Margaret D. Stetz..............................1
Dialogically Feminized Reading: A Critique of Reader-Response Criticism
Patricia Lorimer Lundberg............................................9
Reading Victorian Heroines: North and South, Daniel Deronda and Villette
Ellen Rosenman.......................................................38
Other People's I's (Eyes): The Reader, Gender and Recursive Reading in
To the Lighthouse and The Waves
Jane Marcus..........................................................53
The Seduction of Sarah: Reading John Fowles's Victorian Fantasy
Elizabeth Campbell...................................................68
Announcements................................................................78
Advertisement................................................................79
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Number 21 Spring 1989
Audience and authority
A Note from the Editor.......................................................i
Introduction
Gesa Kirsch..........................................................1
Rereading in the Writing Process
Keith Grant-Davie....................................................2
Writers' Conceptions of Audience in Graduate Literature Courses
Patricia A. Sullivan.................................................22
Reading Authority, Writings Authority
Peter L. Mortensen...................................................35
Authority in Reader-Writer Relationships
Gesa Kirsch..........................................................56
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Number 20 Fall 1988
On Louise M. Rosenblatt
A Note from the Editor.......................................................i
Introduction: On First Reading Rosenblatt
John Clifford........................................................1
Writing and Reading: The Transactional Theory
Louise M. Rosenblatt.................................................7
Louise Rosenblatt and Theories of Reader-Response
Carolyn Allen........................................................32
Democratic Practice, Pragmatic Vistas
Ann E. Berthoff......................................................40
"First Steps" in Wandering Rocks": Students' Differences, Literary
Transactions, and Pleasures
Kathleen McCormick...................................................48
The Aesthetic Mind of Louise Rosenblatt
Alan C. Purves.......................................................68
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Number 19 Spring 1988
Note from the Editor.........................................................i
Imagination and Emotion: Toward the Theory of Representation
Keith Opdahl.........................................................1
Reader Response to Thoreau's Walden: A Study of Undergraduates
Reading Patterns
Richard Dillman......................................................21
"The Power of Example:" Harry Ormond Reads Tom Jones
Mary-Elisabeth Fowkes Tobin..........................................37
Fragments of Possession: A Poststructuralist's Reading of Forester's
"My Wood"
Mary Ellen Pitts.....................................................53
Subscription Page............................................................65
Advertisement................................................................67
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Number 18 Fall 1987
Rhetoric and Reading
A Note from the Editor.......................................................i
Foreward
Victor Udwin.........................................................1
Reading and Writing: The Rhetoric of Reversal
Vector Udwin.........................................................5
Reading and Law: Order in the Court?
Adrienne Miller......................................................17
Reading the Writing on Nature's Wall
Patricia Roberts.....................................................31
Reading the Unwritten
Celina Siegel........................................................45
Announcements................................................................53
Subscription Page ...........................................................60
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Number 17 Spring 1987
Letter from the Editor.......................................................i
Misreading Student's Texts
Patricia Donahue.....................................................1
Reading Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge: Toward a
Problem-Solving Theory of Reading Literature
JoAnne Liebman-Kleine................................................13
Becoming Woman: Identification and Desire in The Sound and The Fury
Karen Kaivola........................................................29
Drifting with Henry James
Bruce Bassoff........................................................44
Call for Papers and Announcements............................................58
Subscription Page............................................................60
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Number 16 Fall 1986
Pedagogy
A Note from the Editor.......................................................i
The Pedagogical Implications of Reader-Response Theory
Mariolina Salvatori..................................................1
Reading, Writing, and Intention
Chris M. Anson.......................................................20
Reading Lyrical Ballads: Teaching by Response
Jared Curtis ........................................................36
Reading as a Communal Act of Discovery: Finnegans Wake in the Classroom
Paul Ady.............................................................50
Assessing Students' Responses to Literature
Donald A. McAndrew...................................................63
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Number 15 Spring 1986
Teaching Noncanonical Literature
A Note from the Editor.......................................................i
Introduction
John Schilb..........................................................1
Canonical Theories and Noncanonical Literature: Steps Toward Pedagogy
John Schilb..........................................................3
Responses of White Students to Ethnic Literature: One Teacher's Experience
Valerie Lee..........................................................24
Student Readers and the Civil War Letters of an Ohio Woman
Leonore Noll Hoffman.................................................34
A Response Pedagogy for Noncanonical Literature
John Clifford........................................................48
Review.......................................................................62
Announcements................................................................64
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Number 14 Fall 1985
The New Rhetoric and the New Literacy Theory
A Note from the Editor.......................................................i
Introduction
Kathleen McCormick...................................................1
Foundations of a Constructivist Empirical Study of Literature
Siegfried J. Schmidt.................................................5
Crash-Testing a Transactional Model of Literary Learning
Russell A. Hunt and Douglas Vipond...................................23
Psychological realism: A New Epistomology for Reader-Response Criticism
Kathleen McCormick...................................................40
A Unified-Field Theory for English
David Shumway........................................................54
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Number 13 Spring 1995
Gender and Reading
A Note From the Editor.......................................................i
Add Gender and Stir
Patrocinio P. Schweickart............................................1
Vendor, Reading and Misreading
Madonne M. Miner.....................................................10
Re-Writing The Moral Essay: Eliza Haywood's Female Spectator
Kathryn Shevelow.....................................................19
Gender Bias in the Concept of Audience
Elisabeth Daumer.....................................................32
Selected Bibliography........................................................42
Announcements................................................................45
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Number 12 Fall 1984
Deconstruction
A Note from The Editor.......................................................i
Introduction
Temma F. Berg........................................................ii
Wrestling with the Deconstructive Angel
Temma F. Berg........................................................1
Reader?/Response?/Text?/Self?
Susan R. Horton......................................................11
Intentionalism, Reader-Response and the Place of Deconstruction
Jonathan Loesberg....................................................21
On Choosing One's Allies: The Interimplication of Act and Response
Wendell Harris.......................................................39
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Number 11 Spring 1984
Reading/Writing Relationships
A Note from the Editors......................................................i
A Remembrance by David Bleich................................................v
Ideology and Pseudo-Politics in the Teaching of Literature and Composition
Bruce T. Peterson....................................................1
Social Foundations of Reading and Writing
Deborah Brandt.......................................................14
The Writing/Readings Relationship: Implications of Recent Research in
Cognition for Reading and Writing
Richard Beach and JoAnne Liebman-Kleine..............................23
Analyzing Language in Terms of the Intersujbectivity of Communities
and Authority
Tom Fox..............................................................38
Publications of Bruce T. Peterson............................................49
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Number 10 Fall 1983
Relationships Between Response Theories and Reading Research
A Note from The Editor.......................................................i
Theory and Research in Reading: Insights From Socio-Psycholinguistics
Robert F. Carey......................................................1
The Role of Selection Strategies in Literary-Critical Reading(s)
James Sosnoski.......................................................14
Relationships Between Reader-Response and the Research of Kenneth
and Yetta Goodman
William Powers.......................................................28
Complementarities: Reading Research and Theories of Response
Elizabeth A. Flynn...................................................37
Letters to the Editor:
David Bleich.........................................................45
Brian G. Caraher.....................................................48
Selected Bibliography........................................................52
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Number 9 Spring 1983
Ideologies of Reader-Oriented Literary Theory
A Note from the Editors......................................................i
Bleich and Iser on the Reader's Role
Ed Block.............................................................1
Experience, Authority and Theoretical Ideals: A Methodological Critique
of Some Recent Reader-Response Criticism and Theory
Brian Gregory Caraher................................................10
Literature Lost or the Politics of Justification
Larysa Mykyta........................................................32
Reading for an Image of the Reader: A Response to Block, Caraher,
and Mykyta
Charles Altieri......................................................38
Selected Bibliography...46
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Number 8 July 1980
Announcements
Wendy Deutelbaum.....................................................3
The Woman Reader and The Male Critical Establishment
Ann R. Shapiro.......................................................5
"What Right Have I, a Woman, to Read all These
Things that Man has Done?" Virginia Woolf as Reader
Brenda R. Silver.....................................................11
Woman Reading: A Phenomenonological Approach
Elizabeth A. Flynn...................................................16
A New Kind of Reader: The Chicana Feminist
Margarita Cota-Cardenas..............................................23
The Spectator and The Viewer
Catherine Johnson....................................................28
A Feminist Reading of Can You Forgive Her and Portrait of a Lady
Kossia Orloff........................................................32
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Number 7 January 1980
Reading Reading in Literature
William W. Stowe.....................................................3
Teaching Reading
William E. Cain......................................................8
Reading Aloud and the Composing Process
Leone Scanlon........................................................11
Report from Indiana: On Two Courses
David Bleich.........................................................15
Fantasy in Fiction: Studying Literature Through Readers
Susan M. Eliott......................................................22
Some Issues Related to Reader-Oriented Teaching
Susan M. Eliott......................................................28
Report from France
Vickey Mistacco......................................................39
Report on the 1979 NEMLA Forum on The Reader of Literature
Susan Elliot.........................................................48
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Number 6 June 1979
This issue is made up of responses to David Bleich's Subjective Criticism
Untitled
Robert Crossman......................................................5
Untitled
Susan M. Elliott.....................................................7
Resymbolizing Subjective Criticism
James J. Sosnoski....................................................11
Untitled
Jeanne Murray Walker.................................................15
Authorizing Authority in Subjective Pedagogy.
Wendy Deutalbaum.....................................................19
David Bleich Replies To:
Robert Crossman......................................................25
Susan Elliott........................................................26
James Sosnoski.......................................................27
Jeanne Walker........................................................28
Wendy Deutalbaum.....................................................30
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Number 5 October 1978
Four Types of Reader
Robert Crossman......................................................3
All Readers Reading
Steven Mailloux......................................................9
An Act of Reciprocity
Temma Berg...........................................................12
Reading a Fairy Tale
Jennifer Waelti-Walters..............................................16
Communication Theory and the Real Reader
Thomas H. Zynda......................................................20
The Energies of the Body in Literary Response
David Downing........................................................26
Is There Such a Thing as Reading?
P. Cortland..........................................................31
Editors Comment
Robert Crossman......................................................35
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Number 4 1978
What is Reader-Oriented Criticism?
Susan Suleiman.......................................................3
Seminar: The Reader in Modern Franch Fiction
Vicki Mistacco.......................................................7
Teaching Literature Through Readers
Susan M. Elliott.....................................................9
Creative Writing and Student Reading
Peter Parisi.........................................................15
Teaching Reader Responses
Wendy Deutalbaum.....................................................17
Walter J.Slatoff.....................................................21
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Number 3 July 1977
Responses to New Literary History(Vol.8, no.1;Autumn 1976)
Daniel Laferriere....................................................1
Peter Rabinowitz.....................................................2
Don Hendrick.........................................................3
The "Valuing Relation" in Naumann's "Literary Production and Reception":
Some Theoretical and Practical Conclusions
Stan S. Rubin........................................................4
The Reader as a Person
Susan Elliott........................................................5
More Responses to New Literary History(Vol.8, no.1;Autumn 1976)
Robin Miller.........................................................8
Robert Crossman......................................................10
Comment......................................................................12
Future Issues................................................................12
Announcements................................................................13
Bibliography.................................................................13
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Number 2 April 1977
Editor's Note
Robert Crossman......................................................1
Letters......................................................................2
Future Issues................................................................5
Further Plan's for 1977 MLA Convention.......................................6
Other Information............................................................6
Subscriptions................................................................7
Bibliographic Supplement.....................................................7
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Number 1 January 1977
Editor's Note
Robert Crossman......................................................1
Summary of the Forum on the Reader of Literature, 1976 MLA Convention
R. Crossman..........................................................2
Plans for the 1977 MLA Convention
R. Crossman..........................................................6
Bibliography.................................................................7
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