...Martin Bickman Formerly, to be a radical teacher one had to be a Marxist, but in the past three years, a simple commitment to honesty, empathy, and democratic community has become an act of resistance. Examining three examples of reader-response criticism suggests how one can apply these values...

..., responsibly, and tactfully, guided both by teachers’ experiences and by their knowledge of theoretical approaches to course content. Drawing principally from affect theory, but also enfolding concepts from intersectional feminism, digital humanities, reader-response theory, and other critical methodologies...

...Stephen Sutherland To build on the legacy of reader-response theory, English studies needs to destabilize the foundational binary separation of reading and writing by creating stronger intradisciplinary relations between composition and literary studies. English studies professors can do so...

... and response sessions. The article's third part provides a more intimate gaze into the backgrounds and experiences of all three participants, offering readers a sense of just how compelling and unexpected the participant stories proved to be, behind the scenes and beyond the classroom. The article concludes...

...K. Narayana Chandran English has a peculiar way of redefining the selves and locations of readers, especially in countries where Anglo-American texts are studied with a multicultural awareness. Ernest Hemingway's “Hills like White Elephants” creates a world elsewhere not only for the couple who...

...Paul T. Corrigan This article shows how and why one might teach painting as a reading practice in a literature course. Painting in response to a literary text can deepen the impact that the text has on a reader/painter and can develop her or his ability to read well. Such an activity taps...

...Jeraldine R. Kraver This study compares two different groups of readers—college English majors and a community reading group—in how they engage food-centric stories by Anzia Yezierska and Lara Vapnyar. The groups' polemical responses etch a rhetorical space between the worlds inside and outside...

..., Jeffrey Berman, and Alan Purves, this article considers the challenges presented to contemporary college-level readers by affectively difficult texts such as David Lynch's 1986 film Blue Velvet . The article also explores the potential responses students express to difficult texts and encourages...

...Bev Hogue Abstract Natasha Trethewey's poem “Native Guard” begins and ends with the phrase “Truth be told,” but the poem demonstrates just how difficult it can be to tell the truth — or even a truth — about history. “Native Guard” excavates historical events that many readers will find unfamiliar...

... on the social and institutional contexts that produce error (chapter 5); and 2000 – 2004, which has seen renewed interest in a reader’s response to error (chapter 6). Chapter 1, “Revising Error,” presents an overview of the shifting roles of error across historical periods. Santa also begins...

... Council of Teachers of English. Chamberlain, Lori. 1989 . “Bombs and Other Exciting Devices; or, The Problem of Teaching Irony.” College English 51 : 29 -40. Culler, Jonathan. 1980 [1975]. “Literary Competence.” In Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism , ed. Jane P...

...John Webster © 2006 Duke University Press 2006 The Elements (and Pleasures) of Difficulty . By Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori and Patricia Donahue. New York: Pearson Education-Longman, 2005. Harkin, Patricia. 2005 . “The Reception of Reader-Response Theory.” College Composition...

...MaryAnn K. Crawford © 2006 Duke University Press 2006 The Elements (and Pleasures) of Difficulty . By Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori and Patricia Donahue. New York: Pearson Education-Longman, 2005. Harkin, Patricia. 2005 . “The Reception of Reader-Response Theory.” College...

... involves much more than the decoding of words on a page (Horning and Kraemer 2013; Carillo 2016a, 2017a; Salvatori and Donahue 2012). Influenced by the values of reader response theory, compositionists generally understand read- ing as an interactive transaction between reader and text in which meaning...

... on College Composition and Com- munication. The two of us and Elaine O. Lees are presenting on a panel titled “Reader-­Response Theory and the Teaching of Writing: The Teacher as Responding Reader.” Our titles? Salvatori: “Some Implications of Iser’s Theory of Reading for the Teaching of Writing...

... Bell’s “The Inde- terminate Moby-Dick.” Without getting bogged down in theoretical jargon, Bell adopted a reader-response stance that allowed her to show how reading through the book along with the students could be mutually beneficial. We are too likely to sacrifice — for ourselves and our...

..., Driek, and Shirley Rau. 2001 . A Classroom of Teenaged Readers: Nurturing Reading Processes in Senior High . New York: Longman. Reviews Roundtable Literature and Lives: A Response-Based, Cultural Studies Approach to Teaching English. By Allen...

... in literature but also prompts ethical reflec- tion, which is worthwhile in and of itself. Moreover, such ideas are far from novel in contemporary literary theory. In its return to considering affect as a crucial component of reading, the relatability approach shares common- alities with reader-­response...

..., Driek, and Shirley Rau. 2001 . A Classroom of Teenaged Readers: Nurturing Reading Processes in Senior High . New York: Longman. Roundtable Literature and Lives: A Response-Based, Cultural Studies Approach to Teaching English. By Allen Carey-Webb. Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers...

..., Driek, and Shirley Rau. 2001 . A Classroom of Teenaged Readers: Nurturing Reading Processes in Senior High . New York: Longman. Roundtable Literature and Lives: A Response-Based, Cultural Studies Approach to Teaching English. By Allen Carey-Webb. Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers...