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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Reader-response criticism. --- Reader-oriented criticism --- Reception aesthetics --- Criticism --- Reading

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Authorship in literature. --- Reader-response criticism. --- Books and reading in literature. --- Keller, Gottfried, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Reader-oriented criticism --- Reception aesthetics --- Criticism --- Reading

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The book takes the form of a collection of studies dealing with a variety of key issues in literary theory. A central theme is the role of the reader in assigning meaning to written works. Literature is understood in its capacity to make sense of certain basic aspects of human experience, including the quest for order in the universe; personal identity over time, a definition of the self with respect to the other, and a definition of the self as a member of a cultural community. In his earlier books, Shadows in the Cave (1982) and Phenomenological Hermeneutics and the Study of Literature (1987), Mario Valdes laid the foundation for his phenomenological-hermeneutic approach to literary criticism. With this book he continues the development of his ideas, using his views of literature, cinema, and art to unravel what he calls 'the imaginative configuration of the world, the cultural phenomenon of making sense, poetic sense, of life.'.

Criticism. --- Hermeneutics. --- Reader-response criticism. --- Reader-oriented criticism --- Reception aesthetics --- Criticism --- Reading --- Interpretation, Methodology of --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Literature --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- Technique --- Evaluation

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When we think of Roman Poetry, the names most likely to come to mind are Vergil, Horace, and Ovid, who flourished during the age of Augustus. The genius of Imperial poets such as Juvenal, Martial, and Statius is now generally recognized, but the final years of the Roman Empire are not normally associated with poetic achievement. Recently, however, classical scholars have begun reassessing a number of poets from Late Antiquity-names such as Ausonius, Claudian, and Prudentius-understanding them as artists of considerable talent and influence. In The Space That Remains, Aaron Pelttari offers the first systematic study of these fourth-century poets since Michael Robert's foundational The Jeweled Style (Cornell, 1989). It is the first to give equal attention to both Christian and Pagan poetry and the first to take seriously the issue of readership. Like the Roman Empire, Latin literature was in a state of flux during the fourth century. As Pelttari shows, the period marked a turn towards forms of writing that privilege the reader's active involvement in shaping the meaning of the text. In the poetry of Ausonius, Claudian, and Prudentius we can see the increasing importance of distinctions between old and new, ancient and modern, forgotten and remembered. The strange traditionalism and verbalism of the day often concealed a desire for immediacy and presence. We can see these changes most clearly in the expectations placed upon readers. The space that remains is the space that the reader comes to inhabit, as would increasingly become the case in the literature of the Latin Middle Ages.

Reader-response criticism. --- Authors and readers --- Latin poetry --- Reader-oriented criticism --- Reception aesthetics --- Criticism --- Reading --- Readers and authors --- Authorship --- Appreciation. --- History and criticism. --- latin literature, Ausonius, Claudian, Prudentius,.

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This book articulates an ethics for reading that places primary responsibility for the social influences of a text on the response of its readers. We write and read as participants in a process through which we negotiate with others whom we must live or work with and with whom we share values, beliefs, and actions. Clark draws on current literary theory, rhetoric, philosophy, communication theory, and composition studies as he builds on this argument. Because reading and writing are public actions that address and direct matters of shared belief, values, and action, reading and writing shou

Reader response criticism. --- Authorship --- Dialogue. --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Dialog --- Drama --- Reader-oriented criticism --- Reception aesthetics --- Criticism --- Reading --- Social aspects.