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Readers, Texts, Teachers

Name: Readers, Texts, Teachers
Author: Bill Corcoran and Emrys Evans
ISBN: 9780867091878

by Bill Corcoran and Emrys Evans

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Overview

This book for teachers across the school and college grade range is about the experience of reading literature-specifically about learning to read, the teaching of literature, and writing in relation to reading. All of its chapters are by practicing teachers in schools, colleges, and universities in Australia and England. They describe what they do, with detailed examples, and with constant reference to a theoretical framework that is laid out in the first three chapters. U.S. teachers will find much that echoes and supports the best kinds of literature teaching in this country. The reader-response theory that underlies the argument of the book is based mainly on the work of Wolfgang Iser and Louise Rosenblatt (to whose title and book, The Reader, the Text, the Poem, this book pays tribute). From a brief historical survey in the first chapter to a concluding chapter entitled "Post Reader-Response: The Deconstructive Critique," the contributors acknowledge competing ideas about teaching reading and literature, but in between they make a convincing theory has most to offer teachers and students.