Do Readers Make Meaning?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: Varieties Of Audience-Oriented Criticism 1
5. Prolegomena To A Theory Of Reading 46
6. Reading As Construction 67
7. The Reading Of Fictional Texts 83
8. Interaction Between Text And Reader 106
9. The Readerhood Of Man 120
10. Do Readers Make Meaning? 149
11. Fiction As Interpretation Interpretation As Fiction 165
12. The Dialectic Of Metaphor: An Anthropological Essay On Hermeneutics 183
13. Toward A Sociology Of Reading 205
14. "What's Hecuba To Us?" The Audience's Experience Of Literary Borrowing 241
15. Montaigne's Conception Of Reading In The Context Of Renaissance Poetics And Modern Criticism 264
16. Toward A Theory Of Reading In The Visual Arts: Poussin's The Arcadian Shepherds 293
17. Exemplary Pornography: Barres, Loyola, And The Novel 325
18. Re-Covering "The Purloined Letter": Reading As A Personal Transaction 350
19. The Theory And Practice Of Reading Nouveaux Romans: Robbe-Grillet's Topologie D'une Cite Fantdme 371
20. Annotated Bibliography Of Audience-Oriented Criticism 401
21. Notes On Contributors 425
22. Subject Index 429
23. Index Of Names 435