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Maps and Legends / by Chabon, Michael.(CARDINAL)347807;
Subjects: Reader-response criticism.; Authorship.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The limits of interpretation / by Eco, Umberto.(CARDINAL)139063;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-291) and index.
Subjects: Criticism.; Semiotics and literature.; Reader-response criticism.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Toward Robert Frost : the reader and the poet / by Oster, Judith.(CARDINAL)735744;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-322) and index.
Subjects: Frost, Robert, 1874-1963; Reader-response criticism.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Revelations : personal responses to the books of the Bible.
Includes bibliographical references.An anthology of introductions from books in the Pocket canon series.
Subjects: Essays.; Bible; Bible; Bible;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Maps and legends : reading and writing along the borderlands / by Chabon, Michael.(CARDINAL)347807;
A series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock Holmes to Cormac McCarthy. Throughout, Chabon energetically argues for a return to the thrilling, chilling origins of storytelling, rejecting the false walls around "serious" literature in favor of a wide-ranging affection.
Subjects: Biographies.; Authors, American; Authorship.; Books and reading.; Literature; Reader-response criticism.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Maps and legends : reading and writing along the borderlands / by Chabon, Michael.(CARDINAL)347807;
A series of linked essays analyzes works of literature important to the author, argues for the importance of enjoying a diverse range of reading options, and explores the author's own writings from a perspective of personal history.
Subjects: Biographies.; Chabon, Michael.; Authors, American; Authorship.; Books and reading.; Literature; Reader-response criticism.;
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 15
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No longer slaves : Galatians and African American experience / by Braxton, Brad Ronnell.(CARDINAL)706484;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-137) and index.
Subjects: Bible.; African Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Jane Austen & the price of happiness / by Brodey, Inger Sigrun,author.(CARDINAL)894201;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Perfect Felicity" -- Commonplace happiness -- Expecting literary justice -- The limits of romance -- The thin veil of comedy -- The art of English happiness -- Resources for solitude -- Coauthoring happiness"This work explores how, through shifts in narrative tone and pacing at the conclusions of her novels, Jane Austen gives her readers the happy ending they crave, but leaves its price tag attached"--
Subjects: Literary criticism.; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; Closure (Rhetoric); Happiness in literature.; Narration (Rhetoric); Reader-response criticism.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Reading Shakespeare's characters : rhetoric, ethics, and identity / by Desmet, Christy,1954-2018.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-203) and index.1440L
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Characters and characteristics in literature.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; Reader-response criticism.; Ethics in literature.; Rhetoric;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Reading Austen in America / by Wells, Juliette,1977-author.(CARDINAL)356357;
"Austen in America tells the story of America's long love-affair with Jane Austen and her work. Beginning with the first US edition of Emma, published in Philadelphia in 1816, Juliette Wells -- author of Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination -- goes on to explore Austen's American publication history, correspondence with readers through the ages and the work of curators, promoters and fans of Austen in the 21st century."--Introduction -- Part one. The 1816 Philadelphia Emma and its readers -- The origins of the first Austen novel printed in America -- Tales of three copies: books, owners, and readers -- An accomplished Scotswoman reads Austen abroad: Christian, Countess of Dalhousie in British North America -- Part two. Transatlantic Austen conversations -- Enthusiasts connected through the "electric telegraph of genius": the Quincy sisters of Boston and the Francis W. Austen family of Portsmouth -- Collectors and bibliographers: Alberta H. Burke of Baltimore and David J. Gilson of Oxford.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; Authors and readers; Reader-response criticism;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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