CONTENTS
PREFACE = ⅶ
INTRODUCTION = ⅸ
Ⅰ. THEORETICAL ACCOUNTS OF RECEPTION = 1
Hans Robert Jauss, "The Identity of the Poetic Text in the Changing Horizon of Understanding" = 7
Stanley Fish, "Yet Once More" = 29
Steven Mailloux, "Interpretation and Rhetorical Hermeneutics" = 39
Tony Bennett, "Texts in History : The Determinations of Readings and Their Texts" = 61
Ⅱ. LITERARY CRITICAL STUDIES OF RECEPTION = 75
Gary Taylor, "1790" = 80
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "Literary Theory and the Black Tradition" = 105
Claudia L. Johnson, "The Divine Miss jane : Jane Austen, Janeites, and the Discipline of Novel Studies" = 118
Jane Tompkins, "Masterpiece Theater : The Politics of Hawthorne's Literary Reputation" = 133
Ⅲ. RECEPTION STUDY AND THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK = 155
Robert Darnton, "First Steps Toward a History of Reading" = 160
James Smith Allen, "Reading the Novel" = 180
Ⅳ. RECEPTION STUDY, CULTURAL STUDIES, AND MASS COMMUNICATION = 203
Janice Rad-way, "Readers and Their Romances" = 213
John Fiske, "Madonna" = 246
Andrea Press and Elizabeth Cole, "Women Like Us : Working-Class Women Respond to Television Representations of Abortion" = 259
Janet Staiger, "Taboos and Totems : Cultural Meanings of The Silence of the Lambs" = 282
John Frow, "Economies of Value" = 294
Ⅴ. LIMITATIONS AND DIFFICULTIES OF RECEPTION STUDY = 319
Paul de Man, "Reading and History" = 325
John Guillory, The Discourse of Value" = 335
Robert Holub, "Confrontations with Radicalness" = 340
BIBLIOGRAPHY : RECEPTION STUDIES = 345
1. General Theories = 345
2. Texts and Authors = 352
3. History of the Book = 365
4. Texts, Genres, and Audiences in Mass and Popular Culture = 369
PERMISSIONS = 389
INDEX = 391
