This new theory of reader response describes “perverse attachment,” or the powerful desire to intervene in a story, even when it is impossible to do so.Fiction has long inspired resistance in its read...

This new theory of reader response describes “perverse attachment,” or the powerful desire to intervene in a story, even when it is impossible to do so.Fiction has long inspired resistance in its read...

Abstract. The high school English classroom is the most influential literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars

A compelling revision of the history of experimental writing from Pound and Stein to Language poetry, disclosing its uses and its limits.In this bold new study of twentieth-century American writing an...

Abstract. This essay considers the raucous ontology of the feeling body in relation to the expanding field of affect studies. It first shows how psychophys